Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (eBook)

Christian Raffensperger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
248 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6853-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This study examines conflict and conflict resolution in medieval Eastern Europe. The author argues that the posturing, limited violence, and shifting alliances within kinship networks often determined the outcome of conflicts in the region, without extensive bloodshed or large-scale warfare.

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Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in for the purposes of advancing one's position, and where death among the royal families is relatively rare. At the heart of this analysis is the use of situational kinship networksrelationships created by elites for the purposes of engaging in conflict with their own kin, but only for the duration of a particular conflict. A new image of medieval Eastern Europe, less consumed by civil war and mass death, will change the perception of medieval Eastern Europe in the minds of readers. This new perception is essential to not only present the past more accurately, but also to allow for medieval Eastern Europe's integration into the larger medieval world as something other than an aberrant other.

Autor

Christian Raffensperger is associate professor of history at Wittenberg University.

Inhalt

Introduction Chapter 1: The Importance of ConflictChapter 2: Conflict as Bargaining Chapter 3: Everyone Goes Home AliveChapter 4: The Kinship Web in Theory and Practice Chapter 5: Iaroslav Sviatopolchich’s Kinship Web in ActionChapter 6: Géza II in the Center of a European Kinship WebConclusion: Kinship, Religion, and “Nation”: Alternate Identity Issues in Medieval Eastern

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
• Zusatzinfo: 30 Illustrations including: - 15 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Maps; - 14 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Byzantine Studies • kinship • Medieval History • Russian History • Scandinavian studies • Slavic history
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6853-X / 149856853X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6853-1 / 9781498568531