1st Edition

Memory, State, and Past Remembering in East Central and Northern Europe Interdisciplinary Studies in Medieval Culture, Two Volume Set

760 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

760 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Analysing the mechanisms that lead to the formation of early state forms, Memory, State and Past Remembering in East Central and Northern Europe, Two Volume Set defines the role of gifts, religious belief systems, prestige, and reciprocity within segmentary and chiefdom societies in East and Northern Europe. Volume I explores the functioning of early medieval cultural phenomena, memory and... Read more

VOLUME II

Chapter  1.      Henri Pirenne and the Early Medieval Clash of Civilizations

Romain André

Chapter  2. Funerary Symbols and Social Status in Early Medieval Bohemia (8th-10th Century)

Nadá Profantová

 Chapter  3.  A Hold unto His Majesty. A Sovereign Ritual in 10th–Century Prague Castle

Petr Charvát

Chapter  4. Manco? What in the Early Piast State Should Exist but we Can’t Find it (And why?)

Leszek Paweł Słupecki

 Chapter  5. The Lost Art of the Piast State: A Preliminary Study of the Animal Style in Early Medieval Poland

Leszek Gardeła

 Chapter  6. The Institutional Memory and Institutional Oblivion in Early Medieval Poland (Xth-Xith Century)

Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski

Chapter  7. Did Information Exchange Create Piast State? Early Piast’s Rulers and the Empire (c. 960-1034)

Przemysław Wiszewski

Chapter  8. Boleslaus The Brave in the Narration Of The Anonymus Cronicae Et Gesta Ducum Sive Principum Polonorum

        Franciszek Dąbrowski

Chapter  9. Preliminaries on Liturgy in Early and High Medieval Poland: Manuscript Evidence, Scholarship Overview, and Postulates for Future Research

Paweł Figurski

Chapter 10. From East to West: The Foundation of the Hungarian Medieval State and the Shift in Hungarian Warfare Ideologies in the Early Middle Ages

Mihály Boda

Chapter 11. Early Medieval Hungary – Between the East and the West

Tadeusz Kopyś

Chapter 12. Beyond The Grave: The Burial Sites of The Arpadian Rulers in Relation to their Foundations of Episcopal Sees

            Katalin Szende

Chapter  13. Money and Power in Medieval Norway. Haraldr Sigurþarson’s Return from Byzantium in Scandinavian Historiography

            Maciej Lubik

Chapter  14. Jarls Of Hlaþir – Condemned Rulers Of Early Medieval Norway

Jakub Morawiec

Chapter 15. Ways Of Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia– Preliminary Study

            Maria Szmyt, Marcelina Lipska, Maciej Mazur

 Chapter 16. Russian Medieval Historiographic Sources About Polovttsian (Kuman) Elites (11th-13th Century)

Dariusz Dąbrowski

VOLUME II

Chapter 1       Memory of the Past. John Lydos on the Origins of Rome and Roman Offices in the Period of Kings         

Szymon Olszaniec

Chapter 2       Macedonia between two worlds: Roman and Barbaricum (7th-9th centuries) 

Mitko B. Panov

Chapter 3       Testimonies and Questions Related to the Elite Formation Process - the case of Antes (4th–7th century)    

Georgios Kardaras

Chapter 4       (In)Visible Members of The Society: Children and Adolescents as Seen in a Tenth-Century Collection of Miracle Stories in Medieval Bulgaria

Yanko M. Hristov

Chapter 5       Rome in the early Piast state           

Przemysław Urbańczyk

Chapter 6       Memory on the battle of Hlyrskógsheiðr and medieval development of the cult of St. Óláfr           

Jakub Morawiec

Chapter 7       dame de cassel et ses mercenaires polonais. l’histoire de la création d’un duché         

Tamás Ölbei

Chapter 8       Charlemagne in medieval illuminations: representations of religious and temporal power at the crossroads of the West and the East

Sabina Madgearu

Chapter 9       the battle of cedynia – memory vs. history. around 1050th anniversary of the events of 972 in cidini  

Stanisław Rosik

Chapter 10     Imagination of royal power and monarchy in Polish cultural texts for children and youth           

Marcin Lisiecki

Chapter 11     The Nature of the Rulers Power in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 13-14 century     

Yanina Ryier

Chapter 12     Hungarian border defence strategy against early Hussite invasions                              

Imre Solt Varga

Chapter 13     Some Considerations on the Emergence of the Moldavian state (13-14 Century)        

Alexandru Madgearu

Chapter 14     "It was said near the ‘tower’ of Mstislav". Accounts of the Rus’ princes from Deszt–i–Kipczak on the example of Mstislav Mstislavovich and Danilo Romanovich

Dariusz Dąbrowski

Chapter 15     Two Kings in One Realm: King Béla IV of Hungary and his Younger Brother, Prince Coloman        

Gábor Barabás

Chapter 16     The Romanness of the Master Vincentius’s Account on the Bolesław the Wrymouth’s Campaign against Nakło (Chronica Polonorum, III.14–17)

Radosław Kotecki

Chapter 17     Magister Vincentius’ Tales of Power. Roman Decor of the Early Piast Monarchy in the Chronica Polonorum

Franciszek Dąbrowski

Chapter 18     Rome, Christianity and the Empire - did Piasts need external legitimization of their power (2nd half of the 10th c. - beginning of the 12th c.)           

            Przemysław Wiszewski

Biography

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 Toruń, Poland. His scientifc interests include the history of trade in the Viking era and the history of the Ottonian Empire and its infuence on the shaping of the areas of East Central and Northern Europe.

 Łukasz Różycki is Professor of History at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. His main research interests include the study of Roman and Byzantine theory of warfare, with a particular focus on military treatises.

 Marcin Lisiecki is Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; works at the Faculty of Humanities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University; his scientific interests focus, among others, on around popular culture, animated film and research on myths.