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Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Century)
This is the first of two volumes containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.
Promoting the Saints
The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors—from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history—represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.
Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West
This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.
Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since 1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number of national library associations all over Europe.
Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History
This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes inclu...
Die „Episkopalisierung der Kirche“ im europäischen Vergleich
Die ,Episkopalisierung der Kirche‘ bedeutete mehr als nur den Ausbau von Macht, Kompetenzen und Befugnissen eines Bischofs. Sie war ein universales, alles durchdringendes Prinzip: Alle Bereiche der Gesellschaft waren nicht mehr ohne eine bischöfliche Prägung vorstellbar, die in alle Richtungen ausstrahlte. Die Episkopalisierung der Kirche lässt sich besonders gut im direkten Umfeld der Bischöfe beobachten – und damit in der Diözese, die den zentralen Ort der Aushandlung und der Etablierung der Bischofskirche bildete. Die Beiträge des Sammelbands verfolgen und analysieren diesen zentralen Transformationsprozess im frühen und hohen Mittelalter in einem europäischen Vergleich, indem sie Fallbeispiele von Skandinavien bis Spanien und Byzanz sowie von Irland bis Osteuropa und den Nahen Osten in den Blick nehmen. .
Palaimintojo kankinio Juozapato, Polocko arkivyskupo, gyvenimo ir mirties atvaizdai: šaltinis, vertimas ir studija
Leidinį sudaro lotyniška šaltinio faksimilė, poetinio kūrinio vertimas į lietuvių kalbą su moksliniais komentarais ir keturių autorių mokslo studija, kurioje istoriniu, hagiografiniu, dailėtyriniu ir literatūriniu aspektais yra pristatomas 1675 m. Vilniuje išleistas embleminio pobūdžio rinkinys ir jo kontekstas. Publikuojamame šaltinyje jėzuitas Andriejus Mlodzianovskis tekstu ir vaizdu įamžina Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės kankinio, palaimintojo, Polocko arkivyskupo Juozapato Kuncevičiaus gyvenimą ir mirtį. Pasirinkta daugialypė forma, virtuoziška poetinės ir vaizdinės raiškos įvairovė šį veikalą leidžia priskirti prie Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės brandaus Baroko literatūros šedevrų. Knygoje pirmą kartą plačiau aptariamos kūrinio istorinės ir hagiografinės prielaidos, dailei ir literatūrai įtakos darę šaltiniai, mokslo publikaciją papildo priedai ir iliustracijos. Knygos leidimą rėmė: LIETUVOS MOKSLO TARYBA
Common Culture and the Ideology of Difference in Medieval and Contemporary Poland
Teresa Pac provides a much-needed contribution to the discussion on shared culture as foundational to societal survival. Through the examination of common culture as a process in medieval Kraków, Poznań, and Lublin, Pac challenges the ideology of difference—institutional, religious, ethnic, and nationalistic. Similarly, Pac maintains, twenty-first century Polish leaders utilize anachronistic approaches in the invention of Polish Catholic identity to counteract the country’s increasing ethnic and religious diversity. As in the medieval period, contemporary Polish political and social elites subscribe to the European Union’s ideology of difference, legitimized by a European Christian heritage, and its intended basis for discrimination against non-Christians and non-white individuals under the auspices of democratic values and minority rights, among which Muslims are a significant target.
The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300)
Mythology is usually reserved for non-Christian religions. However, the adoption of Christianity in Northern and East-Central Europe between c. 1000 and 1300 can be adequately described as a myth-making process: local saints were added to the Christian pantheon in all regions entering Latin Europe. The present collection explores the links between local sanctity and the making of national myths in medieval historical writing. By bringing together specialists in history and literature of the European periphery in question, the case is made that the writing of history and saints lives from this pioneering period should been analysed together as mainly successful attempts at creating cultural foundation myths.
