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 interested in the cultural implications of the renewed Empire's influence on these regions. The text provides various scholarly perspectives, with each contribution reflecting a distinct methodological approach, contributing to a multifaceted discourse on how these cultural phenomena were shaped, contested, and remembered in the medieval context.
This book provides an interdisciplinary study of medieval material culture and memory across medieval Poland, Hungary, Scandinavia, Bohemia, and Rus, and is an ideal resource for students.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Henri Pirenne and the Early Medieval Clash of Civilizations
Romain André
2. Funerary Symbols and Social Status in Early Medieval Bohemia (8th-10th Century)
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 Pawe¿ S¿upecki
5. The Lost Art of the Piast State: A Preliminary Study of the Animal Style in Early Medieval Poland
Leszek Garde¿a
6. The Institutional Memory and Institutional Oblivion in Early Medieval Poland (Xth-Xith Century)
Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski
7. Did Information Exchange Create Piast State? Early Piast's Rulers and the Empire (c. 960-1034)
Przemys¿aw Wiszewski
8. Boleslaus The Brave in the Narration Of The Anonymus Cronicae Et Gesta Ducum Sive Principum Polonorum
Franciszek D¿browski
9. Preliminaries on Liturgy in Early and High Medieval Poland: Manuscript Evidence, Scholarship Overview, and Postulates for Future Research
Pawe¿ 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 - Between the East and the West
Tadeusz Kopy¿
12. Beyond The Grave: The Burial Sites of The Arpadian 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 D¿browski
