1st Edition

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

Edited By Piotr Pranke, Łukasz Różycki, Marcin Lisiecki Copyright 2026
368 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

368 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

368 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Analyzing the mechanisms that led to the formation of early state forms, this book defines the role of gifts, religious belief systems, prestige, and reciprocity within segmentary and chiefdom societies in eastern Europe. Volume I explores the functioning of early medieval cultural phenomena, memory, and power. The development in East Central and Northern Europe has long fascinated scholars... Read more

1.      Henri Pirenne and the Early Medieval Clash of Civilizations

Romain André

 

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

Nadá Profantová

 

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

Petr Charvát

 

4. Manco?: What in the Early Piast State Should Exist but we Can’t Find it (and Why?)

Leszek Paweł Słupecki

 

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

Leszek Gardeła

 

6. The Institutional Memory and Institutional Oblivion in Early Medieval Poland (10th-11th Centuries)

Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski

 

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

Przemysław Wiszewski

 

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

            Franciszek Dąbrowski

 

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

Paweł Figurski

 

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

 

11 Early Medieval Hungary: The Main Features of Hungarian National Identity: From Medieval Hungarus to Modern National Identity

          Tadeusz Kopyś

 

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

            Katalin Szende

 

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

            Maciej Lubik

 

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

Jakub Morawiec

 

15. Ways Of Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia: Preliminary Study

            Maria Szmyt, Marcelina Lipska, Maciej Mazur

 

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

Dariusz Dąbrowski

 

Biography

Piotr Pranke is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Historical Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, and deals with the history of medieval Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. 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 in the Faculty of Humanities at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. His scientific interests focus on popular culture, animated film, and research on myths, among other areas.