War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages : : East, West, and Beyond / / ed. by Yannis Stouraitis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Buc, Philippe,; Downham, Clare,
• HerausgeberIn: Stouraitis, Yannis,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: War and Conflict in Premodern Societies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1. War and Peoplehood in the Middle Ages: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. War and Peoplehood through Time: A Sociological Longue Durée Perspective -- Chapter 3. Making War Ethnic: Arab–Persian Identities and Conflict on the Euphrates Frontier -- Chapter 4. Captive Identities: Inscribing Armenianness from Sebēos to Ayrivanec’i -- Chapter 5. War and Identity in Early Medieval Bulgaria -- Chapter 6. Collective Identifications in Byzantine Civil Wars -- Chapter 7. Warfare and Peoplehood: The Vikings and the English -- Chapter 8. Medieval European Civil Wars: Local and Proto- national Identities of Toulousains, Parisians, and Prague Czechs -- Chapter 9. The Crusades and French Political Identity in the Thirteenth- Century Mediterranean -- Chapter 10. The Song– Jurchen Conflict in Chinese Intellectual History -- Chapter 11. Faithful to a Vanishing Past: Narrating Warfare and Peoplehood in Yuan China -- Chapter 12. War and Collective Identifications in Medieval Societies: Drawing Comparisons -- Selected Bibliography -- Index