Ritual and Politics: Writing the History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16657-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

Referring, by way of example, to the chronicler's story about a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland, this book offers an insight into the modes of using ritual as an effective tool of political action in the Middle Ages—both in the practice of political entreprising, and on the level of narrative information about that practice—and then reflects about the nature of the relationship between the reality of the written account and the reality of the practical activities described in it. It demonstrates the ways in which the reality of the narrative account and the reality of practics—ritual-in-text and ritual-in-performance—overlaid and interlaced one another, and exercised a mutual impact, thereby jointly creating a framework within which, in the earlier and high Middle Ages, political activity took place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalewski, Zbigniew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter One Advent
Chapter Two Submission and reconciliation
Chapter Three Penance
Chapter Four Oath
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zbigniew Dalewski, Ph.D (1994) is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and at University of Bialystok. He had published on issues of medieval political culture, political rituals and symbols of power.