Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-1-032-21777-2 (ISBN)
Description
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it. Instead, they talked about the wider world, and often they had informants or textual sources that informed them about the world, even if they did not visit it themselves. This volume shows that they also used similar ideas to create space and identity - whether talking about the desert, the holy land, or food practices in their texts. By examining medieval authors and their own perceptions of their world, this collection offers a framework for discussions of medieval Europe in the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Illustrations
3 s/w Tabellen, 13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 15 s/w Abbildungen
3 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
556 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-21777-2 (9781032217772)
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Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, as well as a Professor and Chair of History. His work focuses on connecting eastern Europe into the larger medieval European world, as seen in Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' and the Medieval World (2012) and Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (2018).
Content
1. Introduction - the medieval world then and now
Part 1: A Wider World
2. The Horizons of Gregory of Tours
3. When World Views Collide? The Travel Narratives of Haraldr Sigur?arson of Norway
4. Concubinage in New Contexts: Interfaith Borrowings and the Rulers of Castile-Leon in the High Middle Ages
5. Finding Byzantine-Norman Common Ground:Classics and Christianity in Tzetzes' Encomium to Loukia
6. Imagined Geographies in Early Rus'
7. The Globe in Thirteenth-Century Hispania: Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada and his World
8. The World View of Marco Polo's Devisament dou monde: Commercial Marvels, Silk Route Nostalgia and Global Empire in the Late Middle Ages
9. Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de Leon and Saint Blaise at Braunschweig
Part 2: Neighbors and Neighborhoods
10. Adam's of Bremen view of the Polabian Slavs
11. Into the Wild West: Two Twelfth-Century Clerics' View of Medieval Brittany
12. An Irish Sea King?: Ethnicity and Legitimacy in the Vita Griffini filii Conani and Historia Gruffud vab Kenan
13. Saxo and the Slavs
14. Is there any other world? Imagination of the outside world in the medieval historiography of the Czech lands based on the chronicles Cosmas of Prague, so called Dalimil and Pribik Pulkava of Radenin
15.'Und gras vor spise zeren': Migration, Fermentation, and the Map of Civilization in the Baltic Crusades
16. Bulgaria - the new Byzantium: Political ideology and self-perception in a medieval Balkan State
17. Medieval Welsh Ethnic Nicknames and Implications for the Welsh View of their Geopolitical Context, 1050 - 1400
Part 1: A Wider World
2. The Horizons of Gregory of Tours
3. When World Views Collide? The Travel Narratives of Haraldr Sigur?arson of Norway
4. Concubinage in New Contexts: Interfaith Borrowings and the Rulers of Castile-Leon in the High Middle Ages
5. Finding Byzantine-Norman Common Ground:Classics and Christianity in Tzetzes' Encomium to Loukia
6. Imagined Geographies in Early Rus'
7. The Globe in Thirteenth-Century Hispania: Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada and his World
8. The World View of Marco Polo's Devisament dou monde: Commercial Marvels, Silk Route Nostalgia and Global Empire in the Late Middle Ages
9. Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de Leon and Saint Blaise at Braunschweig
Part 2: Neighbors and Neighborhoods
10. Adam's of Bremen view of the Polabian Slavs
11. Into the Wild West: Two Twelfth-Century Clerics' View of Medieval Brittany
12. An Irish Sea King?: Ethnicity and Legitimacy in the Vita Griffini filii Conani and Historia Gruffud vab Kenan
13. Saxo and the Slavs
14. Is there any other world? Imagination of the outside world in the medieval historiography of the Czech lands based on the chronicles Cosmas of Prague, so called Dalimil and Pribik Pulkava of Radenin
15.'Und gras vor spise zeren': Migration, Fermentation, and the Map of Civilization in the Baltic Crusades
16. Bulgaria - the new Byzantium: Political ideology and self-perception in a medieval Balkan State
17. Medieval Welsh Ethnic Nicknames and Implications for the Welsh View of their Geopolitical Context, 1050 - 1400