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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795642103321

Titolo

Christianity and war in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia / / edited by Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen and Stephen Bennett [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-64189-133-5

Edizione

[New edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Beyond medieval Europe

Disciplina

947.000902

Soggetti

Christianity and politics - Europe, Eastern - History - To 1500

Christianity and politics - Scandinavia - History - To 1500

Church and state - Europe, Eastern - History - To 1500

Church and state - Scandinavia - History - To 1500

Europe, Eastern History, Military

Scandinavia History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Editors’ Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia: An Introduction -- PART ONE: THE CHURCH AND WAR -- 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 -- Chapter 2. Thirteenth- Century Hungarian Prelates at War -- Chapter 3. The Image of “Warrior- Bishops” in the Northern Tradition of the Crusades -- Chapter 4. Memory of the “Warrior- Bishops” of Płock in the Writings of Jan Długosz -- Chapter 5. Preachers of War: Dominican Friars as Promoters of the Crusades in the Baltic Region in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 6. Depictions of Violence in Late Romanesque Mural Paintings in Denmark -- PART TWO: RELIGION IN WAR AND ITS CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS -- Chapter 7. Religious Rituals of War in Medieval Hungary Under the Árpád Dynasty -- Chapter 8. Pious Rulers, Princely Clerics, and Angels of Light: “Imperial Holy War” Imagery in Twelfth- Century Poland and Rus` -- Chapter 9. Religion and War in



Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum: The Examples of Bishop Absalon and King Valdemar I -- Chapter 10. Rhetoric of War: The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources (Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages) -- Chapter 11. Civil War as Holy War? Polyphonic Discourses of Warfare During the Internal Struggles in Norway in the Twelfth Century -- 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 -- Chapter 13. Orthodox Responses to the Baltic Crusades -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.