Imagined communities : constructing collective identities in medieval Europe / edited by Andrzej Pleszczynski [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pleszczyński, Andrzej, editor.

Series:

Explorations in medieval culture ; 2352-0299 Volume 8.

Explorations in Medieval Culture ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Group identity.

Europe--Civilization.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales and Scotland, to Hungary and Ruthenia, while both narrative and other types of evidence, such as legal texts, are drawn upon. What emerges is how the characteristics and aspirations of communities are exemplified and legitimised through the presentation of the past and an imagined picture of present. By means of its multiple perspectives, this volume offers significant insight into the medieval dynamics of collective mentality and group consciousness. Contributors are Dániel Bagi, Mariusz Bartnicki, Zbigniew Dalewski, Georg Jostkleigrewe, Bartosz Klusek, Paweł Kras, Wojciech Michalski, Martin Nodl, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Euryn Rhys Roberts, Stanisław Rosik, Joanna Sobiesiak, Karol Szejgiec, Michał Tomaszek, Tomasz Tarczyński, Przemysław Tyszka, Tatiana Vilkul, and Przemysław Wiszewski.

Contents:

Genealogical fictions and chronicle writing in central East Europe in the 11th-13th centuries / Daniel Bagi

Strategies of creating dynastic identity in Central Europe in the 10th-12th centuries / Zbigniew Dalewski

'Rex imperator in Regno Suo' - an ideology of Frenchness? Late medieval France, its political elite and juridical discourse / Georg Jostkleigrewe

The king and the saint against the Scots : the shaping of English national identity in the 12th century narrative of King Athelstan's victory over his Northern neighbours / Tomasz Tarczynski

Objects, places, and space in the process of constructing monastic identities : a few examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries / Michal Tomaszek

The law as an element organizing and identifying a community in the narratives of the origins of the kingdoms of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae, John of Fordun, Chronica Gentis Scottorum) / Bartosz Klusek

Creating the past and shaping identity : Angevin dynastic legend ('Gesta consulum andegavorum') / Karol Szejgiec

Creating knightly identities? Scottish lords and their leaders in the narratives about great moments in community history (between John Barbour's The Bruce and Blind Hary's Wallace) / Wojciech Michalski

People and boyars in the old Russian chronicles of the 11th-13th centuries : narrative modelling of social identities / Tatiana Vilkul

The identity of self-governing groups (guilds and communes) in the middle ages and their collective identity / Andrzej Pleszczynski

The conceptualisation of men and women by the authors of penitentials / Przemyslaw Tyszka

A surfeit of identity? Regional solidarities, Welsh identity and the idea of Britain / Euryn Rhys Roberts

Region as a fluid social construct in medieval Central Europe (11th-15th c.) / Przemyslaw Wiszewski

The shaping of post-Barbarian identity : the example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th century / Stanislaw Rosik

Kievan and Galician-Volodimir chronicles in the 12th and 13th centuries : the Ruthenian ethnos and foreign people / Mariusz Bartnicki

Czechs and Germans : nationals and foreigners in the work of Czech chroniclers : from Cosmas of Prague (12th century) to the chronicle of the so-called dalimil (14th century) / Joanna Sobiesiak

Corporative interests versus nationalism : Prague University at the turn of the 15th century / Martin Nodl

The imagined communities of heretics : constructing the identity of the religious enemy in the late middle ages / Pawel Kras.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-36379-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004363793 DOI