Analysing the mechanisms that lead to the formation of early state forms, Memory, State and Past Remembering in East Central and Northern Europe, Two Volume Set defines the role of gifts, religious belief systems, prestige, and reciprocity within segmentary and chiefdom societies in East and Northern 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.
Volume II explores the concept and the idea of memory, commemoration and material culture related to the power of memory and functioning of medieval state observed in sources. This book discusses how gift and elite exchange gained significant importance over the early and high middle ages and encompassed, at the level of symbolic communication, the Christian perspective on power rituals as well as the sacred dimension of its legitimisation and manifestation.
Both volumes provide an interdisciplinary study of material culture and memory across medieval Poland, Hungary, Scandinavia, Bohemia and Rus. An ideal resource for students of medieval East Central and Northern Europe, medieval material culture and memory more broadly
Table of Contents:
VOLUME II
Chapter 1. Henri Pirenne and the Early Medieval Clash of Civilizations
Romain André
Chapter 2. Funerary Symbols and Social Status in Early Medieval Bohemia (8th-10th Century)
Nadá Profantová
Chapter 3. A Hold unto His Majesty. A Sovereign Ritual in 10th–Century Prague Castle
Petr Charvát
Chapter 4. Manco? What in the Early Piast State Should Exist but we Can’t Find it (And why?)
Leszek Paweł Słupecki
Chapter 5. The Lost Art of the Piast State: A Preliminary Study of the Animal Style in Early Medieval Poland
Leszek Gardeła
Chapter 6. The Institutional Memory and Institutional Oblivion in Early Medieval Poland (Xth-Xith Century)
Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski
Chapter 7. Did Information Exchange Create Piast State? Early Piast’s Rulers and the Empire (c. 960-1034)
Przemysław Wiszewski
Chapter 8. Boleslaus The Brave in the Narration Of The Anonymus Cronicae Et Gesta Ducum Sive Principum Polonorum
Franciszek Dąbrowski
Chapter 9. Preliminaries on Liturgy in Early and High Medieval Poland: Manuscript Evidence, Scholarship Overview, and Postulates for Future Research
Paweł Figurski
Chapter 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
Chapter 11. Early Medieval Hungary – Between the East and the West
Tadeusz Kopyś
Chapter 12. Beyond The Grave: The Burial Sites of The Arpadian Rulers in Relation to their Foundations of Episcopal Sees
Katalin Szende
Chapter 13. Money and Power in Medieval Norway. Haraldr Sigurþarson’s Return from Byzantium in Scandinavian Historiography
Maciej Lubik
Chapter 14. Jarls Of Hlaþir – Condemned Rulers Of Early Medieval Norway
Jakub Morawiec
Chapter 15. Ways Of Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia– Preliminary Study
Maria Szmyt, Marcelina Lipska, Maciej Mazur
Chapter 16. Russian Medieval Historiographic Sources About Polovttsian (Kuman) Elites (11th-13th Century)
Dariusz Dąbrowski
VOLUME II
Chapter 1 Memory of the Past. John Lydos on the Origins of Rome and Roman Offices in the Period of Kings
Szymon Olszaniec
Chapter 2 Macedonia between two worlds: Roman and Barbaricum (7th-9th centuries)
Mitko B. Panov
Chapter 3 Testimonies and Questions Related to the Elite Formation Process - the case of Antes (4th–7th century)
Georgios Kardaras
Chapter 4 (In)Visible Members of The Society: Children and Adolescents as Seen in a Tenth-Century Collection of Miracle Stories in Medieval Bulgaria
Yanko M. Hristov
Chapter 5 Rome in the early Piast state
Przemysław Urbańczyk
Chapter 6 Memory on the battle of Hlyrskógsheiðr and medieval development of the cult of St. Óláfr
Jakub Morawiec
Chapter 7 dame de cassel et ses mercenaires polonais. l’histoire de la création d’un duché
Tamás Ölbei
Chapter 8 Charlemagne in medieval illuminations: representations of religious and temporal power at the crossroads of the West and the East
Sabina Madgearu
Chapter 9 the battle of cedynia – memory vs. history. around 1050th anniversary of the events of 972 in cidini
Stanisław Rosik
Chapter 10 Imagination of royal power and monarchy in Polish cultural texts for children and youth
Marcin Lisiecki
Chapter 11 The Nature of the Rulers Power in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 13-14 century
Yanina Ryier
Chapter 12 Hungarian border defence strategy against early Hussite invasions
Imre Solt Varga
Chapter 13 Some Considerations on the Emergence of the Moldavian state (13-14 Century)
Alexandru Madgearu
Chapter 14 "It was said near the ‘tower’ of Mstislav". Accounts of the Rus’ princes from Deszt–i–Kipczak on the example of Mstislav Mstislavovich and Danilo Romanovich
Dariusz Dąbrowski
Chapter 15 Two Kings in One Realm: King Béla IV of Hungary and his Younger Brother, Prince Coloman
Gábor Barabás
Chapter 16 The Romanness of the Master Vincentius’s Account on the Bolesław the Wrymouth’s Campaign against Nakło (Chronica Polonorum, III.14–17)
Radosław Kotecki
Chapter 17 Magister Vincentius’ Tales of Power. Roman Decor of the Early Piast Monarchy in the Chronica Polonorum
Franciszek Dąbrowski
Chapter 18 Rome, Christianity and the Empire - did Piasts need external legitimization of their power (2nd half of the 10th c. - beginning of the 12th c.)
Przemysław Wiszewski
About the Author :
Piotr Pranke is an assistant professor who deals with the history of medieval Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe, and is a member of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His scientifc interests include the history of trade in the Viking era and the history of the Ottonian Empire and its infuence on the shaping of the areas of East Central and Northern Europe.
Łukasz Różycki is Professor of History at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. His main research interests include the study of Roman and Byzantine theory of warfare, with a particular focus on military treatises.
Marcin Lisiecki is Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; works at the Faculty of Humanities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University; his scientific interests focus, among others, on around popular culture, animated film and research on myths.
