Continuation or change? Borders and frontiers in late antiquity and medieval Europe : landscape of power network, military organisation, and commerce / edited by Gregory Leighton, Łukasz Różycki, and Piotr Pranke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leighton, Gregory, editor, author.

Różycki, Łukasz, editor, author.

Pranke, Piotr, editor, author.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Europe--History.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Social aspects--Europe.

Borderlands--Political aspects--Europe.

Cultural pluralism--Europe--History.

Cultural pluralism.

Europe--Boundaries--History.

Europe.

Europe--History, Military--To 1500.

Europe--Commerce--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages) : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

Borders and frontiers in late antiquity and medieval Europe : landscape of power network, military organisation and commerce

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Gregory Leighton is NAWA Ulam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Archival Sciences, Nicholas Copernicus University in ToruD, Poland. Dr. Leighton studies the Teutonic Order and the Baltic crusades (13th-15th centuries). He has published in The Journal of Medieval History, Zapiski Historyczne, and other leading periodicals. His first monograph will appear with ARC Humanities Press in 2022. Łukasz R̤|ycki is Professor of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University, PoznaD, Poland. His main research interests include the study of Roman and Byzantine theory of warfare, with a particular focus on military treatises, and the study of the 6th century. He is the author of a number of books - most recently Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity (2021) - and articles related to the study of late antiquity and the history of the Byzantine Empire. Piotr Pranke is an assistant professor who deals with the history of medieval Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe, and is a member of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruD, Poland. His scientific interests include the history of trade in the Viking era and the history of the Otton Empire and its influence on the shaping of the areas of "younger Europe". His most recent book publication is Medieval Trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (2020).

Contents:

Florin Curta, Robert Lierse (University of Florida), Networks of Masculinity: Bearded Warriors in East Central Europe (6th-9thc.)

Mitko B. Panov (Institute of National History, Skopje) The Slavs and the Conceptual Borderland of the Byzantine Romanness in Macedonia

Ivan Basić (University of Split), Imperial Legacies and Multiple Borderlands: Was There an 'Adrio-Byzantine' Model of Identity in the Upper Adriatic?

Dušan Zupka, (Comenius University in Bratislava), Ritual Representation of Power in Medieval East Central Europe Rulership, Sacrality and Warfare (Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, 10th-14thcentury)

Georgios Kardaras (IHR/NHRF Atheny), The Danube River Between Byzantium and Nomadic Confederations (Huns and Avars) .The Dual Role of Barrier and Bridge

Kirił Marinow (University of Lódź), At the gates of the Empire: the organization of the Byzantine borderlands in the context of Early Medieval Bulgaria

Maciej Lubik (Uniwersytet w Zielonej Górze), Cross-border Cooperation Between Óláfr Haraldsson and the Clan of Rǫgnvaldr Úlfsson

Piotr Pranke (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), The "Barbarian" Borderlands Between East and West. The First Piast's Dynasty as an Organizer of Interregional Trade

a Comparative Approach

Piotr Oliński (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Polish Piast Rulers and the Prayers of Monastic Communities

Radosław Kotecki (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz), The Public Military Service of Bishops toward Piast Monarchy (12th-13th Century)

Felix Biermann (University of Szczecin) Conflict and Contact Zone: The Lower Middle Elbe (Northern Germany) as a Border in the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods

Andrzej Pydyn, Konrad Lewek (Nicolaus Copernicus University) Who are you calling peripheral? The creation of Piast central power, on the example of the Lednica settlement complex

Mateusz Sosnowski (Wdecki Landscape Park), Jerzy Czerniec (IAiE PAN Warsaw), Krystian Kozioł (AGH University of Science and Technology), Olaf Popkiewicz, Paulina Lewińska (AGH University of Science and Technology), Stanisław Szombara (AGH University of Science and Technology), Discovering traces of the possible early first millennium AD nordic settlements in the Lower Vistula river basin. Interdisciplinary archaeological research at the site in Osie (site no.: Osie 28, AZP 27-41/26), northern Poland

Mateusz Popek (Nicolaus Copernicus University) A time of change: Puck harbour in context of the growth of the early Piast monarchy

Dariusz Dąbrowski (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz), Between the World of Christians and Pagans. Galician-Volynian Rus' Towards Yotvingia and Lithuania in the 13th Century

Gregory Leighton (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), City Foundatios, Frontiers, and Sacral History in Peter von Dusburg's Chronicon terrae Prussiae

Dmitry Weber (St. Petersburg State University), Tribute as a Political Instrument in the Borderlands. The Example of the "Tribute of Dorpat"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Continuation or change? Borders and frontiers in late antiquity and medieval Europe

ISBN:

9781003267638

1003267637

9781000645927

1000645924

9781000645897

1000645894

Publisher Number:

40031421984

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