Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages : : the perception of the 'other' and the presence of mutual ethnic stereotypes in medieval narrative sources / / edited by Andrzej Pleszczyński and Grischa Vercamer.

This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of narrative historical sources, such as chronicles, hagiography, and literary material, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland. What sorts of stereotypes...

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Superior document:Explorations in Medieval Culture ; Volume 16
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
German
Series:Explorations in medieval culture ; Volume 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:
  • Chapters 10, 11, 20 were translated from German into English.
  • This volume is the outcome of the conference "Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages--Perception of the Other and Mutual Stereotypes" held at the Instytut Historii im.Tadeusza Manteuflla PAN in Warszaw on May 24-27, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Maps
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / Andrzej Pleszczyński and Grischa Vercamer
  • Chapter 2 Constructing Otherness in the Chronicles of the First Crusade / Kristin Skottki
  • Chapter 3 Alterity and Genre: Reflections on the Construction of 'National' Otherness in Franco-German Contexts / Georg Jostkleigrewe
  • Chapter 4 England - No Interest? How Anglo-Norman and Angevin Historians Perceived the Empire in the Twelfth Century / Isabelle Chwalka
  • Chapter 5 "... rogans eum sibi in auxilium contra superbiam Teutonicorum": The Imaging of 'Theutonici' in Bohemian Medieval Sources between the Ninth and Fourteenth Centuries / David Kalhous
  • Chapter 6 The Image of the Germans and the Holy Roman Empire in Polish Historiography until the 13th Century / Andrzej Pleszczyński
  • Chapter 7 The Perception of the Holy Roman Empire and Its People in the Eyes of the Polish Elites in the Middle Ages / Sławomir Gawlas
  • Chapter 8 Polish Hagiographic Sources and Their View of the Germans in the Middle Ages / Roman Michałowski
  • Chapter 9 Poland and the Poles in Early and High Medieval German Historiography / Volker Scior
  • Chapter 10 Poland and the Polish People in Late Medieval German Historiography / Norbert Kersken
  • Chapter 11 Poland, Silesia, Pomerania and Prussia in the Empire's Hagiographic Sources / Stephan Flemmig
  • Chapter 12 Perception of Poland in Peter Suchenwirt's Heraldic Poems: Reflections on Dependence between Assessments and Genres / Paul Martin Langner
  • Chapter 13 Constructions of Identities and Processes of Othering. Images of Polish Characters, Polishness and Poland and Their Roles in Medieval German Literature / Florian M. Schmid
  • Chapter 14 Between Real Experience and Stereotypes: The Silesian People in the Middle Ages with Respect to Their Neighbors (in Historiographic Sources) / Wojciech Mrozowicz
  • Chapter 15 Prussia I : ' ... und das her konng mochte werdin czu Polan, und nicht von cristinlicher libe ... ' Historians within the Teutonic Order (Ordensgeschichtsschreibung) in Prussia in the Middle Ages with Regard to Poland / Grischa Vercamer
  • Chapter 16 Prussia II : The Views of Late Medieval Historians in Prussia towards Poland / Adam Szweda
  • Chapter 17 Kraków I : 'Ethnic' or 'National' Conflict in 14th Century Kraków? / Marcin Starzyński
  • Chapter 18 Kraków II : ' Ad hoc traxit me natura ...'. Social Stereotypes in Kraków and the Rebellion of Vogt Albert of 1311-1312 / Piotr Okniński
  • Chapter 19 Contemporary Stereotypes within German-Polish Relations: A Linguistic Approach / Jarochna Dąbrowska-Burkhardt
  • Chapter 20 Final Remarks: Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages: The Perception of the 'Other' and the Presence of Mutual Ethnic Stereotypes in Medieval Narrative Sources (10th-15th Centuries) / Thomas Wünsch
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Geographic Names and Historical (also Fictional) Persons.