Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe

Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, as well as a Professor and Chair of History. His work focuses on connecting eastern Europe into the larger medieval European world, as seen in Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ and the Medieval World (2012) and Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (2018).

• 1. Introduction – the medieval world then and now Part 1: A Wider World2. The Horizons of Gregory of Tours3. When World Views Collide? The Travel Narratives of Haraldr Sigurðarson of Norway4. Concubinage in New Contexts: Interfaith Borrowings and the Rulers of Castile-León in the High Middle Ages5. Finding Byzantine-Norman Common Ground:Classics and Christianity in Tzetzes’ Encomium to Loukia6. Imagined Geographies in Early Rus’7. The Globe in Thirteenth-Century Hispania: Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his World8. The World View of Marco Polo’s Devisament dou monde: Commercial Marvels, Silk Route Nostalgia and Global Empire in the Late Middle Ages9. Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de León and Saint Blaise at BraunschweigPart 2: Neighbors and Neighborhoods10. Adam’s of Bremen view of the Polabian Slavs11. Into the Wild West: Two Twelfth-Century Clerics’ View of Medieval Brittany12. An Irish Sea King?: Ethnicity and Legitimacy in the Vita Griffini filii Conani and Historia Gruffud vab Kenan13. Saxo and the Slavs14. Is there any other world? Imagination of the outside world in the medieval historiography of the Czech lands based on the chronicles Cosmas of Prague, so called Dalimil and Přibík Pulkava of Radenín15.’Und gras vor spise zeren’: Migration, Fermentation, and the Map of Civilization in the Baltic Crusades16. Bulgaria - the new Byzantium: Political ideology and self-perception in a medieval Balkan State17. Medieval Welsh Ethnic Nicknames and Implications for the Welsh View of their Geopolitical Context, 1050 – 1400

New Books Network podcast with the author on the book:https://newbooksnetwork.com/authorship-worldview-and-identity-in-medieval-europe