Stouraitis War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages

East, West, and Beyond
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-106-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the longue durée development of the phenomena of ethnicity and nationhood by drawing attention to the impact of war on the evolution of various types of polity and visions of community in the Middle Ages. Its use of non-European as well as European exemplars provides a wealth of fruitful comparative material, shedding new light on the relationship between medieval warfare and high-level identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stouraitis, Yannis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: "War and Peoplehood in the Middle Ages: An Introduction," by Yannis Stouraitis Chapter 2: "War and Peoplehood through Time: A Sociological Longue Durée Perspective," by Siniša Maleševic Chapter 3: "Making War Ethnic: Identity and Conflict on the Arabian-Mesopotamian Frontier," by Peter Webb Chapter 4: "Captive Identities: Inscribing Armenianness from Sebeos to Ayrivanec‘i," by Sergio La Porta Chapter 5: "War and Identity in Early Medieval Bulgaria," by Panos Sophoulis Chapter 6: "Collective Identifications in Byzantine Civil Wars," by Yannis Stouraitis Chapter 7: "Warfare and Peoplehood: The Vikings and the English," by Clare Downham Chapter 8: "Medieval European Civil Wars, Local and Proto-National Identities of Toulousains, Czechs in Prague, and Parisians," by Philippe Buc Chapter 9: "The Crusades and French Political Identity in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean," by Gregory E. M. Lippiatt Chapter 10: "The Song-Jurchen Conflict in Chinese Intellectual History," by Shao-yun Yang Chapter 11: "Faithful to a Vanishing Past: Narrating Warfare and Peoplehood in Yuan China," by Francesca Fiaschetti Chapter 12: "War and Collective Identifications in Medieval Societies: Drawing Comparisons," by Yannis Stouraitis Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Stouraitis Yannis :

Yannis Stouraitis is senior lecturer in Byzantine history at the University of Edinburgh and author of Krieg und Frieden in politischer und ideologischer Wahrnehmung in Byzanz (7.-11. Jahrhundert) (2009).