Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, vol. 26, 2021, Narrations of Violence

Redakcja: Wojciech Fałkowski

Rok wydania: 2021

Liczba stron: 380

Okładka: miękka

Format: 16,5 cm x 23,5 cm

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"In 927, as the rule of Symeon I the Great (893-927) came to an end, so did the long war between Byzantium and Bulgaria. The two countries concluded a peace agreement which they kept for almost four decades. The significance of this event  becomes evident in the oration On the Treaty with the Bulgarians , delivered by an anonymous author, perhaps Theodore Daphnopates (890/900-after 961). Although the orator praises the long-desired peace,  a significant part of his oration is devoted to a depiction of war. War, by its  very nature the pinnacle of violence, is presented according to the principles  of the Christian religion as a sin leading to violation of the sacred Covenant  with God. It is an act of hatred, which betrays the evangelical command-ment to love one’s enemies. The war between Byzantium and Bulgaria was a particular transgression, as it was fought by two Christian nations, thus deliberately breaking all of God’s commandments"

(from: "War is part of their nature": Nomadic violence in Byzantine texts of 10th to 12 th Century - a tool of identity and...policy-making")

Contents:

Narrations of Violence     /5

Aleksander Paroń. “War is part of their nature”: nomadic violence in Byzantine texts of the 10 th  to 12 th  century – a tool of identity and… policy-making     /5

Tomasz Pełech. From a house of the devil to God’s temple – “abrenuntiatio diaboli” and “confessio fidei” in the narrative about the foundation of the bishopric of Albara during the First Crusade in the Gesta Francorum  and the Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere   /33

Stanisław Rosik. Cidini  972. Thietmar’s account of margrave Hodo’s raid into Mieszko I’s country and the »Battle of Cedynia«     /55

Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński. The  Chronica Polonorum  by Bishop Vincentius of Cracow. Preliminary remarks about its historical context, violence and its use    /79

Marek Smoliński. The Gdańsk Massacre in the Medieval Historical Narrative    /91 

Joséphine Moulier. « Rénovation seigneuriale » et affirmation des droits de la communauté à Dienne (Cantal) : Conflits et violences dans une seigneurie de moyenne montagne à la fin du Moyen Âge (XIVe-XVIe  siècle)    /129

Current Research    /147

Marian Rębkowski, Cristina Martínez Álvarez, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, Wojciech Filipowiak Archaeological research on Madīnat Ilbīra – an Umayyad town in al-Andalus. Course and Problems      /147

Tomasz Dalewski. Kings among kinglets? Carolingian dynastic identity at the dawn of the post-Carolingian age    /173

Michał Tomaszek. The History of Poland from the 10 th  to 13th Centuries as Presented in Contemporary German Medieval Studies: Methods of Accounting Traditional and New Interpretative Approaches     /193

Marcin Kurdyka. Les éléments géographiques de définition et d’identification du monde slave dans l’historiographie de la Pologne, de la Bohême et de la Rus’ (XIIe-XIVe siècle)     /251

Claire Weeda. Able Bodies: The Organisation of Labour and Health, 1300-1600: A Research Agenda  /271

Mateusz Goliński. Cities in the face of disasters to Jewish communities – a draft of the problem in the late Middle Ages    /293

III. In Memoriam    /329

Professor Henryk Samsonowicz (1930-2021)    /329

IV. Book Notices    /335

Authors   /375

Contents  /379