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Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021

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This collaborative collection provides fresh perspectives on Christianity and the conduct of war in medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia, investigating the intersection between religion, culture, and warfare in territories that were only integrated into Christendom in the Central Middle Ages. The contributors analyze cultures that lay outside Charlemagne's limes and the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire, to consider a region stretching from the Balkans to the Baltic and Scandinavia.
The volume considers clerics as military leaders and propagandists, the role of Christian ritual and doctrine in warfare, and the adaptation and transformation of indigenous military cultures. It uncovers new information on perceptions of war and analyzes how local practices were incorporated into clerical narratives, enabling the reader to achieve a complete understanding of the period.

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Contributor: Radosław Kotecki Radosław Kotecki (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz) has published on religion and war, clerical warfare, and arms-bearing, especially in medieval Poland. --- Contributor: Carsten Selch Jensen Carsten Selch Jensen (University of Copenhagen) has published a number of works on the process of Christianization, warfare, and crusading, especially in the Baltic. --- Contributor: Stephen Bennett Stephen Bennett (Queen Mary University of London) is a historian specializing in medieval warfare. He is currently working on a book covering participation in the Third Crusade.

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Recenzowaną publikację można uznać za propozycję istotną dla mediewistycznych studiów specjalistycznych. Odrębną, ale wartą podkreślenia kwestią jest jakość wykonanych prac redakcyjnych oraz prezentowanego w ramach poszczególnych stu- diów warsztatu naukowego ich autorów. Istotne wydaje się każdorazowe osadzenie omawianych zagadnień w kontekście historii powszechnej. Praca stanowi ważny głos w dyskusji, umożliwiający szerokiemu gronu czytelników zapoznanie się z historią Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej i Północnej. Jest również przykładem popularyzacji wiedzy z obszaru interdyscyplinarnej mediewistyki.

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Closing the gap between recent developments in Polish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovakian, and Czech historiographies, the volume provides an important update to earlier conversations in English, French or German language scholarship. As a whole, the wider goal of the volume is to bring these regional histories into greater contact with other scholarly conversations about the intersection between Christianity and warfare; it achieves that goal.[...]Overall, this edited volume presents a good set of studies that help provide a good “update” for scholars that might be unable to read the locally-produced material on which the authors of the chapters draw. The editorial care to present as much good scholarship is evident: the authors are, for the most part, “known entities” among scholars of crusades and holy war.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    List of Illustrations

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    Editors’ Preface

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    List of Abbreviations

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    Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia: An Introduction

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    Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen and Stephen Bennett
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  • PART ONE: THE CHURCH AND WAR
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    Chapter 1. The Role of the Dalmatian Bishops and Archbishops in Warfare During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: A Case Study on the Archbishops of Split

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    Judit Gál
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    Chapter 2. Thirteenth- Century Hungarian Prelates at War

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    Gábor Barabás
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    Chapter 3. The Image of “Warrior- Bishops” in the Northern Tradition of the Crusades

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    Sini Kangas
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    Chapter 4. Memory of the “Warrior- Bishops” of Płock in the Writings of Jan Długosz

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    Jacek Maciejewski
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    Chapter 5. Preachers of War: Dominican Friars as Promoters of the Crusades in the Baltic Region in the Thirteenth Century

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    Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen
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    Chapter 6. Depictions of Violence in Late Romanesque Mural Paintings in Denmark

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    Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
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  • PART TWO: RELIGION IN WAR AND ITS CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS
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    Chapter 7. Religious Rituals of War in Medieval Hungary Under the Árpád Dynasty

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    Dušan Zupka
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    Chapter 8. Pious Rulers, Princely Clerics, and Angels of Light: “Imperial Holy War” Imagery in Twelfth- Century Poland and Rus`

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    Radosław Kotecki
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    Chapter 9. Religion and War in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum: The Examples of Bishop Absalon and King Valdemar I

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    Carsten Selch Jensen
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    Chapter 10. Rhetoric of War: The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources (Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages)

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    David Kalhous and Ludmila Luňáková
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    Chapter 11. Civil War as Holy War? Polyphonic Discourses of Warfare During the Internal Struggles in Norway in the Twelfth Century

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    Bjørn Bandlien
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    Chapter 12. Martyrdom on the Field of Battle in Livonia During Thirteenth- Century Holy Wars and Christianization: Popular Belief and the Image of a Catholic Frontier

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    Kristjan Kaljusaar
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    Chapter 13. Orthodox Responses to the Baltic Crusades

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    Anti Selart
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    Selected Bibliography

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    Index

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April 30, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781641891349
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781641891349
eBook ISBN: 9781641891349
Keywords for this book
Ecclesiastical History; Military History; East Central Europe; Medieval Scandinavia; Holy War; medieval clergy; Northern and Eastern Europe; Christianity and War; medieval warfare; Warrior-Bishops; Baltic region
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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