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Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
Power, Ritual and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland
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This book provides the first detailed overview of research on rulership in theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on the monarchies of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland in the High and Late Middle Ages. The contributions examine the legitimation of rule of the first local dynasties, the ritual practice of power, the ruling strategies and practices of power in the established monarchies, and the manifold influences on the rulership in East Central Europe from outside the region (such as from Byzantium, and the Holy Roman Empire). The collection shows that these ideas and practices enabled the new polities to become legitimate members of Latin Christendom.
Grischa Vercamer, Ph.D. (2008, Freie Universität Berlin), habilitation (2016), is Professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz. He has published monographs, articles, and collective volumes on the High and Late Middle Ages, including Perception of Good and Bad Power/Rulers in England, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th century in the Historiography (Harrassowitz, 2020).
DuÅ¡an Zupka, Ph.D. (2009, Comenius University in Bratislava) is Assistant Professor at that same University. He has published monographs and articles on power, rulership, and communication in medieval East Central Europe, including Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Ãrpád Dynasty, 1000â1301 (Brill, 2016).
DuÅ¡an Zupka, Ph.D. (2009, Comenius University in Bratislava) is Assistant Professor at that same University. He has published monographs and articles on power, rulership, and communication in medieval East Central Europe, including Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Ãrpád Dynasty, 1000â1301 (Brill, 2016).
â[A könyv] segÃtségével még mélyrehatóbban tárul fel elÅttünk a kelet-középeurópai régió középkori története, sÅt a térség államainak egyedi vonásairól, az itt regnáló dinasztiák uralkodásának különbözÅ szegmenseirÅl is részletesebb képet kaphatunk.â
â[This book] helps us gain deeper insight into the medieval history of the Central and Eastern European region, as well as a more detailed picture of the unique features of this regionâs states and the different aspects of the dynasties that ruled there.â â Ignácz Ãgoston, University of Pécs, in: Aetas 39/2 (2024), p. 216.
âOverall, this book will be of great use to scholars and graduate students seeking to engage their respective fields of expertise with potential avenues of comparative research. The efforts of the authors and editors deserve the highest praise with respect to their willingness to open this rich field of research in medieval studies to a wider audience.â â Gregory Leighton, Nicolaus Copernicus University, in: Austrian History Yearbook 55 (2024), p. 456.
âInsgesamt präsentieren die beiden Hg. ein sehr vielschichtiges Panorama, welches die Bedeutung des (ost-)mitteleuropäischen Raums für die Diskussion dieser zentralen Forschungsfragen eindrucksvoll herausstellt und damit Impulse für eine gesamteuropäische Diskussion bereitÂstellt.â â Jürgen Heyde, in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 79/1 (2023), pp. 357-358.
âThe papers collected in the volume offer a breadth of insights into the diverse aspects of rulership in East-Central Europe [...] It is my hope that this excellent contribution will further facilitate discussion about medieval rulership in East-Central Europe both in the region itself and in anglophone academic discourse.â â Michal Machalski, Central European University, in: Historical Studies on Central Europe 2/2 (2022), p. 348.
â[This book] helps us gain deeper insight into the medieval history of the Central and Eastern European region, as well as a more detailed picture of the unique features of this regionâs states and the different aspects of the dynasties that ruled there.â â Ignácz Ãgoston, University of Pécs, in: Aetas 39/2 (2024), p. 216.
âOverall, this book will be of great use to scholars and graduate students seeking to engage their respective fields of expertise with potential avenues of comparative research. The efforts of the authors and editors deserve the highest praise with respect to their willingness to open this rich field of research in medieval studies to a wider audience.â â Gregory Leighton, Nicolaus Copernicus University, in: Austrian History Yearbook 55 (2024), p. 456.
âInsgesamt präsentieren die beiden Hg. ein sehr vielschichtiges Panorama, welches die Bedeutung des (ost-)mitteleuropäischen Raums für die Diskussion dieser zentralen Forschungsfragen eindrucksvoll herausstellt und damit Impulse für eine gesamteuropäische Diskussion bereitÂstellt.â â Jürgen Heyde, in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 79/1 (2023), pp. 357-358.
âThe papers collected in the volume offer a breadth of insights into the diverse aspects of rulership in East-Central Europe [...] It is my hope that this excellent contribution will further facilitate discussion about medieval rulership in East-Central Europe both in the region itself and in anglophone academic discourse.â â Michal Machalski, Central European University, in: Historical Studies on Central Europe 2/2 (2022), p. 348.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
1 Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
âDuÅ¡an Zupka
2 Rulership and Power in Western Medieval Europe (A Theoretical and Conceptual Introduction)
âGrischa Vercamer
3 After Avars: The Beginning of the Ruling Power on the Eastern Fringe of Carolingian Empire
âMartin Wihoda
4 The Rulership of the Ãrpádian Dynasty in the 10thâ13th Centuries
âMárta Font
5 The Piast Rulership
âZbigniew Dalewski
6 Political, Religious and Social Framework of Religious Warfare and Its Influences on Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
âDuÅ¡an Zupka
7 The Ritual Practice of Power in Bohemia during the 14th Century
âRobert AntonÃn
8 Language of Power and Communication in the Piast Dynasty: Toward a Reappraisal of Polish Political Culture of the 12thâ13th Century
âMarcin R. Pauk
9 Assemblies in the Holy Roman Empire and the East Central European Kingdoms: A Comparative Essay on Political Participation and Representation
âJulia Burkhardt
10 The Irruption of the Sacred into the History of Hungarian Kings in the Mirror of the Angevin âIlluminated Chronicleâ (around 1358)
âVinni Lucherini
11 The Last Piasts: Legitimating Royal Rule in Fourteenth Century Poland
âPaul W. Knoll
12 Royal Power and Military Administration in Angevin Hungary
âAttila Bárány
13 Governance System in Poland during the 15th Century
âBożena Czwojdrak
14 Byzantium and East Central Europe: A Brief Outline of Political and Cultural Relations
âPanos Sophoulis
15 The Kingdom of Rusâ: Towards a New Theoretical Model of Rulership in Medieval Europe
âChristian Raffensperger
16 The âMongol Experienceâ of East Central Europe in Image and Political Reality during the Later Middle Ages
âFelicitas Schmieder
17 Holy Roman Empire and East Central Europe (High Middle Ages): Politics and Influences
âGrischa Vercamer
18 The Holy Roman Empire and East Central Europe (Late Middle Ages): Politics and Influences
âStephan Flemmig
19 Authority without Power? Papal Rulership over East Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages
âMonika SaczyÅska-Vercamer
General Bibliography
Index
List of Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: Introduction
1 Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
âDuÅ¡an Zupka
2 Rulership and Power in Western Medieval Europe (A Theoretical and Conceptual Introduction)
âGrischa Vercamer
PART 2: Legitimacy and Rulership â Beginning and Development of the First Dynasties in the Early and High Middle Ages
3 After Avars: The Beginning of the Ruling Power on the Eastern Fringe of Carolingian Empire
âMartin Wihoda
4 The Rulership of the Ãrpádian Dynasty in the 10thâ13th Centuries
âMárta Font
5 The Piast Rulership
âZbigniew Dalewski
PART 3: Ritual and Politics: Established Rulership in the High and Late Middle Ages
6 Political, Religious and Social Framework of Religious Warfare and Its Influences on Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
âDuÅ¡an Zupka
7 The Ritual Practice of Power in Bohemia during the 14th Century
âRobert AntonÃn
8 Language of Power and Communication in the Piast Dynasty: Toward a Reappraisal of Polish Political Culture of the 12thâ13th Century
âMarcin R. Pauk
9 Assemblies in the Holy Roman Empire and the East Central European Kingdoms: A Comparative Essay on Political Participation and Representation
âJulia Burkhardt
PART 4: Structures of Power in the Late Middle Ages
10 The Irruption of the Sacred into the History of Hungarian Kings in the Mirror of the Angevin âIlluminated Chronicleâ (around 1358)
âVinni Lucherini
11 The Last Piasts: Legitimating Royal Rule in Fourteenth Century Poland
âPaul W. Knoll
12 Royal Power and Military Administration in Angevin Hungary
âAttila Bárány
13 Governance System in Poland during the 15th Century
âBożena Czwojdrak
PART 5: Influences on Rulership in East Central Europe from Outside
14 Byzantium and East Central Europe: A Brief Outline of Political and Cultural Relations
âPanos Sophoulis
15 The Kingdom of Rusâ: Towards a New Theoretical Model of Rulership in Medieval Europe
âChristian Raffensperger
16 The âMongol Experienceâ of East Central Europe in Image and Political Reality during the Later Middle Ages
âFelicitas Schmieder
17 Holy Roman Empire and East Central Europe (High Middle Ages): Politics and Influences
âGrischa Vercamer
18 The Holy Roman Empire and East Central Europe (Late Middle Ages): Politics and Influences
âStephan Flemmig
19 Authority without Power? Papal Rulership over East Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages
âMonika SaczyÅska-Vercamer
General Bibliography
Index
Medievalists, historians, art historians and archaeologists with an interest in medieval East Central Europe, especially those interested in politics, ruling symbolism and monarchic ideology.