Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe

408 Pages·2018·2.9 MB·English

by  Andrzej Pleszczyński

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Imagined Communities
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Explorations in Medieval Culture
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Larissa Tracy (Longwood University)
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Imagined Communities
Constructing Collective Identities
in Medieval Europe
Edited by
Andrzej Pleszczyński
Joanna Sobiesiak
Michał Tomaszek
Przemysław Tyszka
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
List of Contributors ix
1 Introduction 1
Part 1
Dynasty and Power
2 Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe
in the 11th–13th Centuries 15
Dániel Bagi
3 Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the
10th-11th Centuries 30
Zbigniew Dalewski
4 ‘Rex imperator in regno suo’ – An Ideology of Frenchness? Late
Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse 46
Georg Jostkleigrewe
Part 2
Spirituality
5 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 85
Tomasz Tarczyński
6 Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic
Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th
Centuries 103
Michał Tomaszek
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Contents Part 3
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Chapter 1 iNTRODUCTION Social Condition and Gender
Introduction 1
Part 1
Dynasty and Power
Chapter 2 7 The Law as an Element Organizing and Identifying a Community in
Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe in the 11th–13th Centuries 15
Dániel Bagi the Narratives of the Origins of the Kingdoms of Britain, (Geoffrey of
Chapter 3
Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the 10th-12th Centuries 30
Zbigniew Dalewski Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae, John of Fordun, Chronica
Chapter 4
‘Rex imperator in regno suo’ – An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse 46 Gentis Scottorum) 127
Georg Jostkleigrewe
Part 2 Bartosz Klusek
Spirituality
Chapter 5
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 85
Tomasz Tarczyński 8 Creating the Past and Shaping Identity – Angevin Dynastic Legend
Chapter 6
Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th Centuries 103 (‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’) 144
Michał Tomaszek
Part 3 Karol Szejgiec
Social Condition and Gender
Chapter 7
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) 127
Bartosz Klusek 9 Creating Knightly Identities? Scottish Lords and Their Leaders in the
Chapter 8
Creating the Past and Shaping Identity – Angevin Dynastic Legend (‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’) 144 Narratives about Great Moments in Community History (between
Karol Szejgiec
Chapter 9 John Barbour’s The Bruce and Blind Hary’s Wallace) 154
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) 154 Wojciech Michalski
Wojciech Michalski
Chapter 10
People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social Identities 179
Tatiana Vilkul
Chapter 11 10 People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th
The Identity of Self-Governing Groups (Guilds and Communes) in the Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity 204
Andrzej Pleszczyński Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social Identities 179
Chapter 12
The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of Penitentials  222 Tatiana Vilkul
Przemysław Tyszka
Part 4
Region
CAh Sauprtfeerit 1 o3f Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and the Idea of Britain* 247 11 The Identity of Self-Governing Groups (Guilds and Communes) in the
Euryn Rhys Roberts
Chapter 14 Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity 204
Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe (11th-15th C.) 279
Przemysław Wiszewski Andrzej Pleszczyński
Chapter 15
The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th Century 293
Stanisław Rosik
Part 5
We and the Others 12 The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of
Chapter 16
Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People 305 Penitentials 222
Mariusz Bartnicki
Chapter 17 Przemysław Tyszka
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) 322
Joanna Sobiesiak
Chapter 18
Corporative Interests Versus Nationalism: Prague University at the Turn of the 15th Century 335
Martin Nodl
CThhea pImtear g19ined Communities of Heretics: Constructing the Identity of the Religious Enemy in the Late Middle Ages* 364 Part 4
Paweł Kras Region
Index of Historical Persons 389
13 A Surfeit of Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and the
Idea of Britain 247
Euryn Rhys Roberts
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14 Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe
(11th-15th C.) 279
Przemysław Wiszewski
15 The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in
the 11th-12th Century 293
Stanisław Rosik
Part 5
We and the Others
16 Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th
Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People 305
Mariusz Bartnicki
17 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) 322
Joanna Sobiesiak
18 Corporative Interests Versus Nationalism: Prague University at the
Turn of the 15th Century 335
Martin Nodl
19 The Imagined Communities of Heretics: Constructing the Identity of
the Religious Enemy in the Late Middle Ages 364
Paweł Kras
Index of Historical and Fictional Persons 389
viii illustrations Illustrations
List of Illustrations
Figures
4.1 The Roman emperor Charles IV reading the Christmas lesson of the Gospel.
Illumination from Grandes Chroniques de France (detail) 63
4.2 The Roman emperor Charles IV and the French king Charles V during their
‘adventus’ at Paris. Illumination from Grandes Chroniques de France 64
4.3 Meeting of the three ‘Magi’. Illumination from Très Riches Heures du duc de
Berry 65
Map
13.1 Map of Wales: principal territorial divisions of 12-13 C. 263