Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages : : the perception of the 'other' and the presence of mutual ethnic stereotypes in medieval narrative sources / / edited by Andrzej Pleszczyński and Grischa Vercamer.

• Superior document: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; Volume 16
• Author: Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages--Perception of the 'Other' and Mutual Stereotypes Instytut Historii (Polska Akademia Nauk))
• TeilnehmendeR: Pleszczyński, Andrzej,; Vercamer, Grischa,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English; German
• Series: Explorations in medieval culture ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Chapters 10, 11, 20 were translated from German into English.; This volume is the outcome of the conference "Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages--Perception of the Other and Mutual Stereotypes" held at the Instytut Historii im.Tadeusza Manteuflla PAN in Warszaw on May 24-27, 2018.

This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of narrative historical sources, such as chronicles, hagiography, and literary material, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland. What sorts of stereotypes and prejudices existed in the Middle Ages, and how widespread were they? Or what other types of differentiating features were considered, and why? The majority of the contributions clearly shows that medieval authors in general displayed only limited interest in the activities of neighbouring lands, and only then when it concerned their own interests - such as matters of conflict, diplomacy, or marriage - while criticism usually focused on individuals, rather than being generalised to bordering regions as a whole. Contributors are Isabelle Chwalka, Jarochna Dąbrowska-Burkhardt, Stephan Flemmig, Sławomir Gawlas, Georg Jostkleigrewe, David Kalhous, Norbert Kersken, Paul Martin Langner, Roman Michałowski, Wojciech Mrozowicz, Piotr Okniński, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Volker Scior, Florian M. Schmid, Marcin Starzyński, Adam Szweda, Kristin Skottki, Grischa Vercamer, and Thomas Wünsch.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Maps -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Andrzej Pleszczyński and Grischa Vercamer -- Chapter 2 Constructing Otherness in the Chronicles of the First Crusade / Kristin Skottki -- Chapter 3 Alterity and Genre: Reflections on the Construction of 'National' Otherness in Franco-German Contexts / Georg Jostkleigrewe -- Chapter 4 England - No Interest? How Anglo-Norman and Angevin Historians Perceived the Empire in the Twelfth Century / Isabelle Chwalka -- Chapter 5 "... rogans eum sibi in auxilium contra superbiam Teutonicorum": The Imaging of 'Theutonici' in Bohemian Medieval Sources between the Ninth and Fourteenth Centuries / David Kalhous -- Chapter 6 The Image of the Germans and the Holy Roman Empire in Polish Historiography until the 13th Century / Andrzej Pleszczyński -- Chapter 7 The Perception of the Holy Roman Empire and Its People in the Eyes of the Polish Elites in the Middle Ages / Sławomir Gawlas -- Chapter 8 Polish Hagiographic Sources and Their View of the Germans in the Middle Ages / Roman Michałowski -- Chapter 9 Poland and the Poles in Early and High Medieval German Historiography / Volker Scior -- Chapter 10 Poland and the Polish People in Late Medieval German Historiography / Norbert Kersken -- Chapter 11 Poland, Silesia, Pomerania and Prussia in the Empire's Hagiographic Sources / Stephan Flemmig -- Chapter 12 Perception of Poland in Peter Suchenwirt's Heraldic Poems: Reflections on Dependence between Assessments and Genres / Paul Martin Langner -- Chapter 13 Constructions of Identities and Processes of Othering. Images of Polish Characters, Polishness and Poland and Their Roles in Medieval German Literature / Florian M. Schmid -- Chapter 14 Between Real Experience and Stereotypes: The Silesian People in the Middle Ages with Respect to Their Neighbors (in Historiographic Sources) / Wojciech Mrozowicz -- Chapter 15 Prussia I : ' ... und das her konng mochte werdin czu Polan, und nicht von cristinlicher libe ... ' Historians within the Teutonic Order (Ordensgeschichtsschreibung) in Prussia in the Middle Ages with Regard to Poland / Grischa Vercamer -- Chapter 16 Prussia II : The Views of Late Medieval Historians in Prussia towards Poland / Adam Szweda -- Chapter 17 Kraków I : 'Ethnic' or 'National' Conflict in 14th Century Kraków? / Marcin Starzyński -- Chapter 18 Kraków II : ' Ad hoc traxit me natura ...'. Social Stereotypes in Kraków and the Rebellion of Vogt Albert of 1311-1312 / Piotr Okniński -- Chapter 19 Contemporary Stereotypes within German-Polish Relations: A Linguistic Approach / Jarochna Dąbrowska-Burkhardt -- Chapter 20 Final Remarks: Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages: The Perception of the 'Other' and the Presence of Mutual Ethnic Stereotypes in Medieval Narrative Sources (10th-15th Centuries) / Thomas Wünsch -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Geographic Names and Historical (also Fictional) Persons.