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Ritual and politics : writing the history of a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland /

Dalewski, Zbigniew.

Ritual and politics : writing the history of a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland / by Zbigniew Dalewski. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2008 . - East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 3. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004222847. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.

Preliminary Materials / Introduction / Chapter One. Advent / Chapter Two. Submission And Reconciliation / Chapter Three. Penance / Chapter Four. Oath / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index / Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski -- Z. Dalewski.

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Referring, by way of example, to the chronicler's story about a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland, this book offers an insight into the modes of using ritual as an effective tool of political action in the Middle Ages—both in the practice of political entreprising, and on the level of narrative information about that practice—and then reflects about the nature of the relationship between the reality of the written account and the reality of the practical activities described in it. It demonstrates the ways in which the reality of the narrative account and the reality of practics—ritual-in-text and ritual-in-performance—overlaid and interlaced one another, and exercised a mutual impact, thereby jointly creating a framework within which, in the earlier and high Middle Ages, political activity took place.

9789047433378

10.1163/ej.9789004166578.i-218 DOI

2008005745

GBA823679 bnb

014531905 Uk B0805599 bccb


Boleslaw Polen, König, III.


Political customs and rites--History.--Poland


Poland--Politics and government--To 1572.

GN492.3 / .D35 2008

306.209438