Imagined communities : : constructing collective identities in medieval Europe / / edited by Andrzej Pleszczynski [and three others].

• Superior document: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; Volume 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Pleszczynski, Andrzej,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in medieval culture ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages).

Table of Contents

Genealogical fictions and chronicle writing in central East Europe in the 11th-13th centuries / Daniel Bagi -- Strategies of creating dynastic identity in Central Europe in the 10th-12th centuries / Zbigniew Dalewski -- 'Rex imperator in Regno Suo' - an ideology of Frenchness? Late medieval France, its political elite and juridical discourse / Georg Jostkleigrewe -- 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 / Tomasz Tarczynski -- Objects, places, and space in the process of constructing monastic identities : a few examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries / Michal Tomaszek -- 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) / Bartosz Klusek -- Creating the past and shaping identity : Angevin dynastic legend ('Gesta consulum andegavorum') / Karol Szejgiec -- 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) / Wojciech Michalski -- People and boyars in the old Russian chronicles of the 11th-13th centuries : narrative modelling of social identities / Tatiana Vilkul -- The identity of self-governing groups (guilds and communes) in the middle ages and their collective identity / Andrzej Pleszczynski -- The conceptualisation of men and women by the authors of penitentials / Przemyslaw Tyszka -- A surfeit of identity? Regional solidarities, Welsh identity and the idea of Britain / Euryn Rhys Roberts -- Region as a fluid social construct in medieval Central Europe (11th-15th c.) / Przemyslaw Wiszewski -- The shaping of post-Barbarian identity : the example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th century / Stanislaw Rosik -- Kievan and Galician-Volodimir chronicles in the 12th and 13th centuries : the Ruthenian ethnos and foreign people / Mariusz Bartnicki -- 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) / Joanna Sobiesiak -- Corporative interests versus nationalism : Prague University at the turn of the 15th century / Martin Nodl -- The imagined communities of heretics : constructing the identity of the religious enemy in the late middle ages / Pawel Kras.