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Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen, Stephen Bennett - Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia

Av Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen, Stephen Bennett

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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.
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Radosław Kotecki (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz) has published on religion and war, clerical warfare, and arms-bearing, especially in medieval Poland. Carsten Selch Jensen (University of Copenhagen) has published a number of works on the process of Christianization, warfare, and crusading, especially in the Baltic. Stephen Bennett (Queen Mary University of London) is a historian specializing in medieval warfare. He is currently working on a book covering participation in the Third Crusade.

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Closing the gap between recent developments in Polish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovakian, and Czech historiographies, the volume provides an important update to earlier conversations in English, French or German language scholarship. As a whole, the wider goal of the volume is to bring these regional histories into greater contact with other scholarly conversations about the intersection between Christianity and warfare; it achieves that goal.[...]Overall, this edited volume presents a good set of studies that help provide a good “update” for scholars that might be unable to read the locally-produced material on which the authors of the chapters draw. The editorial care to present as much good scholarship is evident: the authors are, for the most part, “known entities” among scholars of crusades and holy war.

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