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Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination
Av Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, Enrique Santos Marinas
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion …
Medieval Bosnia and South-East European Relations
Political, Religious, and Cultural Life at the Adriatic Crossroads
Av Dženan Dautovic, Emir O. Filipovic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1896 kr
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The Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic and its vast Balkan hinterland were an integral part of medieval Europe, both in a geographical and historical sense. However, due to issues of language and a scarcity of sources, the whole region has largely remained out of sight and overlooked by western …
Coloman, King of Galicia and Duke of Slavonia (1208-1241)
Medieval Central Europe and Hungarian Power
Inbunden, 2019
1952 kr
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A figure of crucial importance to scholarship on western and eastern Europe alike, King Coloman (1208–1241) here receives long-overdue scholarly treatment as a key figure of the thirteenth century. The Árpád prince ruled over a vast area in Central Europe which remained largely affiliated to the …
Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas
Inbunden, 2019
2496 kr
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Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the …
Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950-1204
Blood, Reputation, and the Genos
Inbunden, 2019
2094 kr
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This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or genos, as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries. While the genos has served as a central component …
European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine
Inbunden, 2019
2094 kr
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This book focuses on a key zone within the eastern frontier of medieval Europe: Podillya in modern-day Ukraine. Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy offers a definitive guide to the region, which experienced great cultural and religious diversity, together with a continuous influx of newcomers. This is where …
Insular Worlds of Byzantium, ca. 550–ca. 900
Av Luca Zavagno
Inbunden, 2025
2235 kr
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This book explores the "Byzantine" islands of the late antique Mediterranean through different methodologies and a wide array of sources in comparative perspective. It deals with transversal themes centered on the peculiar political and economic structures of insular societies (such as the …
Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia
Av Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2582 kr
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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 …
Architecture and Power in Early Central Europe
Inbunden, 2022
1581 kr
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The book presents the panorama of social, cultural, and religious changes in the states of the Piast, Přemyslid, and Arpad dynasties. Major change occurred in the tenth century and again at the turn of the eleventh century. Given the scarcity of written sources, the author employs an analysis of …
Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination
Av Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, Enrique Santos Marinas
Inbunden, 2023
1535 kr
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The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion …
Christianization of Scandinavia in the Viking Era
Religious Change in Adam of Bremen's Historical Work
Inbunden, 2021
1963 kr
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This book discusses Adam of Bremen's perceptions and interpretation of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages. The views the chronicler presents in the Gesta Hammaburgensis constitute the central element of this analysis. By departing from the historiography—both the older …
Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia
Av Jakub Morawiec, Aleksandra Jochymek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2518 kr
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In the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia, social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language. Everyday norms are mainly conveyed orally or ritually, and rarely in a written or material shape. Despite …
Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe
The Humanist Kingmaker
Inbunden, 2022
2496 kr
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This comprehensive biography of John Vitez, an instrumental figure of the Early Renaissance, presents a complex picture of cultural, political, and religious developments in Central Europe through one man’s life. Drawing on close study of Vitez’s writings and his various political and artistic …
Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus’ Land
Inbunden, 2022
1581 kr
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The concept of the Rus’ Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of “Russia,” but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. Its meaning was dynastic—territories ruled by a member of the …
Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus’ Land
Häftad, 2023
471 kr
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The concept of the Rus’ Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of “Russia,” but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. Its meaning was dynastic—territories ruled by a member of the …
Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2023
2377 kr
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The problem of fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages has not been hitherto studied in detail, especially in comparison with the multitude of studies dealing with the models of marriage, gender-based social roles, or the relations between generations. Historians have been often prone to …
Slavery and Unfreedom in Byzantine Thought on the Household
Inbunden, 2025
2377 kr
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Slavery and family were deeply linked in Byzantine society. When Byzantine writers and theologians envisioned and contextualized both the realities and the idea of the household, they universally assumed the presence of enslaved people within it. Slavery was foundational in Byzantine conceptions of …
Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages
Häftad, 2024
548 kr
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The problem of fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages has not been hitherto studied in detail, especially in comparison with the multitude of studies dealing with the models of marriage, gender-based social roles, or the relations between generations. Historians have been often prone to …
Balkans in the Seventh Century
Ethnic and Cultural Transformations
Av Panos Sophoulis, Georgios Kardaras
Inbunden, 2025
2094 kr
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The seventh century was a period of radical transformation in the Balkans in terms of political, social, and economic history. The decline in Byzantine power led to the collapse of ancient urban civilization, the arrival of new populations from eastern Europe and the steppes, and, subsequently, the …
Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean
Av Annabel Laura Hancock, Ian Forrest
Inbunden, 2025
2033 kr
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This volume uncovers the ways in which trust and mistrust affected people’s lives in premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.Trust is a fundamental part of human relationships. It forms the basis of our connections with people and institutions in a variety of ways. But without reference to the great …
Medieval Catalonia as Frontier
History and Archaeology in Dialogue
Av Jordi Bolòs
Inbunden, 2026
2660 kr
Kommande
Since the eighth century, Catalonia formed part of the Carolingian Empire and constituted a frontier between Christian and Muslim territories. This book highlights the close relationship between archaeology and history. Archaeology provides indispensable evidence, particularly for aspects of the …
Social Memory and Commemorative Landscapes in Medieval Europe’s East
Inbunden, 2026
2377 kr
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This book investigates the social processes of memory formation that were at work among aristocratic groups in medieval Eastern Europe as they attempted to forge a new past that would be in conformity with the present. With an emphasis on the pioneering work of French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, …
Property, Power, and Authority in Rus and Latin Europe, ca. 1000–1236
Inbunden, 2018
2235 kr
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This book intertwines two themes in medieval studies, which so far have never been brought together: comparative studies of Latin and Orthodox Europe and a debate on the "feudal revolution" – the changes that occurred during the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe. The book …
Europe, Byzantium, and the "Intellectual Silence" of Rus' Culture
Inbunden, 2018
1535 kr
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This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences …
Nomads and Natives beyond the Danube and the Black Sea
700–900 CE
Inbunden, 2019
2660 kr
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This book re-examines the history of the Carpathian-Danubian region during the eighth and the ninth centuries, to provide a synthetic historical overview of the region to the north of the Lower Danube in this period. Based on a critical and comparative analysis of archaeological, narrative and …
Reading Prester John
Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts
Av John Eldevik
Inbunden, 2024
1896 kr
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During the Middle Ages, many Europeans imagined that there existed a powerful and marvel-filled Christian realm beyond the lands of Islam ruled by a devout emperor they called “Priest John,” or “Prester John.” Spurred by a forged letter that mysteriously appeared around 1165 and quickly “went …
