Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe

List of Illustrations. p. viii
List of Contributors. p. ix
Introduction. p. 1
Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe in the 11th-13th Centuries / Bagi, Dániel. p. 15-29
Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the 10th-11th Centuries / Dalewski, Zbigniew. p. 30-45
\'Rex imperator in regno suo\' - An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse / Jostkleigrewe, Georg. p. 46-83
The King and the Saint against the Scots: The Shaping of English National Identity in the 12th Century Narrative of King Athelstan\'s Victory over His Northern Neighbours / Tarczynski, Tomasz. p. 85-102
Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th Centuries / Tomaszek, Michal. p. 103-125
The Law as an Element Organizing and Identifying a Community in the Narratives of the Origins of the Kingdoms of Britain, (Geoffrey of Monmouth, \"Historia Region Brittaniae\", John of Fordun, \"Chronica Gentis Scottorum\") / Klusek, Bartosz. p. 127-143
Creating the Past and Shaping Identity - Angevin Dynastic Legend (\"Gesta consilium Andegavorum\") / Szejgiec, Karol. p. 144-153
Creating Knightly Identities? Scottish Lords and Their Leaders in the Narratives about Great Moments in Community History (between John Barbour\'s \"The Bruce\" and Blind Hary\'s \"Wallace\") / Michalski, Wojciech. p. 154-178
People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social Identities / Vilkul, Tatiana. p. 179-203
The Identity of Self-Govcrning Groups (Guilds and Communes) in Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity / Pleszczynski, Andrzej. p. 204-221
The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of Penitentials / Tyszka, Przemyslaw. p. 222-245
A Surfeit of Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and Idea of Britain / Roberts, Euryn Rhys. p. 247-278
Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe (11th-15th C.) / Wiszewski, Przemyslaw. p. 279-292
The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th Century / Rosik, Stanislaw. p. 293-303
Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People / Bartnicki, Mariusz. p. 305-321
Czechs and Germans: Nationals and Foreigners in the Work of Czech Chroniclers: from Cosmas of Prague (12th Century) to the Chronicle of the So-called Dalimil (14th Century) / Sobiesiak, Joanna A. p. 322-334
Corporative Interests Versus Nationalism: Prague University at the Turn of the 15th Century / Nodl, Martin. p. 335-363
The Imagined Communities of Heretics: Constructing the Identity of the Religious Enemy in the Late Middle Ages / Kras, Pawel. p. 364-387
Index of Historical and Fictional Persons. p. 389