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Legitimation of the Elites in High Medieval Poland and Norway Comparative Studies
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 483 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 34 col, 1 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language:English, *new. ISBN 9782503611617.
Between the years 1000 and 1300, the two developing polities of Norway and Poland often followed similar trends. Both realms were located on what was considered the periphery of Europe, both joined Latin Christendom ? and with it, the wider sphere of European cultural influence ? at the turn of the first millennium, and both, by the end of the thirteenth century, had largely coalesced as stable kingdoms. Yet while the histories of these two countries have long been studied along national lines, it remains rarer for them to be considered outside of their traditional geographical context, and studied via comparison with events elsewhere. This innovative volume seeks to explore the means and uses of symbolic power that were employed by religiopolitical elites in order to assert their legitimacy and dominance by taking an explicitly comparative approach and dual perspective on these two polities. What stories did elites tell themselves and others about their deservedness to rule, what spaces and objects did they utilize in order to project their elevated status, and how did struggle and rivalry form part of their societal dominance? Formed from chapters co-written by experts in Polish and Norwegian history, this unique volume not only reflects on the similarities and differences between events in these two polities, but also more broadly offers conceptual tools and comparative frameworks that can enhance our wider understanding of the conditions and factors that shaped religiopolitical behaviour on the peripheries. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Editors? Preface 1. Introduction. Comparing Elite Legitimation in Poland and Norway in the High Middle Ages Wojtek Jezierski, Grzegorz Pac, and Hans Jacob Orning Part I: Stories of Legitimation 2. Ancient Pasts and Traditions as Elite Legitimation in Poland and Norway. Peripheral Senses of Belonging and Non-Belonging Grzegorz Bartusik, Rafa? Rutkowski, and Wojtek Jezierski 3. Missionary Rulers and Holy Men. Christianization as Elite Legitimization and Political Ideology in Poland and Norway, 1000?1300 Wojtek Jezierski and Roman Micha?owski 4. When the Knight Won His Spurs. Elite Military Ideology in Poland and Norway, c. 965?1300 Benjamin Allport and Pawe? ?mudzki Part II: Spaces of Legitimation 5. Sacral Strongholds. Nunneries as Sources of Legitimacy in Twelfth-Century Poland and Norway Anna Agnieszka Dryblak and Steffen Hope 6. Saints and Legitimization of Bishoprics in Poland and Norway until c. 1200 Grzegorz Pac and Steffen Hope 7. Legitimization and Consolidation of Rulership in Norway and Poland c. 990?1140 as Indicated through Coinage Mika Viktoria Boros 8. Coinage, the Cult of Saints, and the Legitimization of Elites in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Poland and Norway Steffen Hope, Mateusz Bogucki, and Svein Harald Gullbekk Part III: Struggles for Legitimation 9. The Contrast Between the Ideology and and the Practice of Rulership in Medieval Poland and Norway Zbigniew Dalewski and Hans Jacob Orning 10. Struggles for Episcopal Legitimation during the Gregorian Reform in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Norway and Poland Jerzy Pysiak and Krzysztof Skwierczy?ski 11. Dynastic Conflicts. Civil Wars or Constant Struggles? Hans Jacob Orning and Marcin Rafa? Pauk 12. Queens and Duchesses in the High Middle Ages. The Role of Elite Women in Shaping Dynastic Legitimation during Periods of Political Change Anna Agnieszka Dryblak and Benjamin Husvik Afterword 13. Is Legitimation Reducible Only to a ?Will to Power?? State Formation and Values in the Comparative History of the European Periphery during the High Middle Ages Alice Taylor General Index
Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c. 1000?1350
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 hardback, Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations:9 b/w, 3 col., 2 tables b/w. Language :English. *new. ISBN 9782503610931.
Many of our oldest and best-loved stories are about killing guests and betraying hosts. Hospitality is celebrated, in medieval texts and in medieval studies, as a way of binding individuals together and strengthening social cohesion, but both the practice and narration of hospitality was shot through with ambiguity and ambivalence. This volume shifts the scholarly gaze from the high table ? where kings, queens, and honoured guests are graciously served by skilled servants ? to the shadowy corners of the hall, the places where gossip and complaint are exchanged, where outlaws hide under the guise of hospitality, where hostages and troublesome strangers are benched, where the light from the hall-fire reflects on drawn blades: prompting difficult reflections on the processes of extraction and predation that provided the material foundations for the feast. The chapters in Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies range from Silk Road caravanserais in Armenia and crusader relations in the Latin East, through ambassadorial and papal receptions in the Mediterranean, treatment of merchants and the poor in Scandinavia, elite feasts in Latin Europe, to hosting of outlaws and hostages in Eurasia. The authors explore ambiguities of hospitality in the Middle Ages through a wide range of sources and methodological approaches. TABLE OF CONTENTS Guests?Strangers?Aliens?Enemies: Introducing Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c. 1000?1350 WOJTEK JEZIERSKI and LARS KJ R Hospitalitas: A Virtue in Danger. Semantic Observations on the Use of hospitalitas in Latin Narratives Sources, 1000?1400 TIM GEELHAAR A Gilded Cage? The Hospitality, Care, and Treatment of Hostages in Eurasia, c. 800?1050 ALICE HICKLIN ?In True Obedience to the Laws of Hospitality?: Hosts, Guests, Crusaders, and the Latin East in the Historia of William of Tyre LARS KJ R Guests, Strangers, and Those in Need: Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality and Making Relations in High Medieval Armenia KATE FRANKLIN Women as Hosts and Protectors of Outlaws in the Sagas of Icelanders SIGRUN BORGEN WIK Between Hostility and Hospitality: Reception of Ambassadors in Late Medieval Italy in the Thirteenth and Early-Fourteenth Centuries EDWARD LOSS Ambiguities of Urban Hospitality in the Norwegian Realm, 1100?1350 MIRIAM TVEIT Opulent and Prone to Disruption: The Reception of Pope Clement VI by Two Cardinals in 1343 RALF L TZELSCHWAB Dark Delights: From Metaphors of Feast-Like Battles to Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Latin Middle Ages WOJTEK JEZIERSKI General Index
Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 356 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600390.
Summary What anxieties did medieval missionaries and crusaders face and what role did the sense of risk play in their community-building? To what extent did crusaders and Christian colonists empathize with the local populations they set out to conquer? Who were the hosts and who were the guests during the confrontations with the pagan societies on the Baltic Rim? And how were the uncertainties of the conversion process addressed in concrete encounters and in the accounts of Christian authors? This book explores emotional bonding as well as practices and discourses of hospitality as uncertain means of evangelization, interaction, and socialization across cultural divides on the Baltic Rim, c. 1000-1300. It focuses on interactions between local populations and missionary communities, as well as crusader frontier societies. By applying tools of historical anthropology to the study of host-guest relations, spaces of hospitality, emotional communities, and empathy on the fronts of Christianization, this book offers fresh insights and approaches to the manner in which missionaries and crusaders reflexively engaged with the groups targeted by Christianization in terms of practice, ethics, and identity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface, Acknowledgments, List of Figures and Tables Chapter One. Introduction Chapter Two. Baltic Frontier Societies, Peripheral Visions, and Emotional Palimpsests Chapter Three. Fear in Missionary and Crusader Risk Societies, 10th-13th Centuries Chapter Four. Pagan Hosts, Missionary Guests, Spaces of Hospitality, 10th-12th Centuries Chapter Five. Hospitality and Its Discontents in Helmold of Bosau's Chronica Slavorum, 12th Century Chapter Six. Emotional Bonding and Trust during Sieges, 12th-13th Centuries Chapter Seven. Politics of Emotions and Empathy Walls in Livonia, 13th Century Chapter Eight. Hospitality and Formation of Identities in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle, 13th Century Chapter Nine. Epilogue Bibliography Index
