Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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 networks—relationships 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-04-26
Mått161 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieByzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
Antal sidor238
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498568524

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Raffensperger goes back to original sources and engages in a lively conversation with preexisting research on Rus’ and other contemporary polities. . . . Although Conflict, Bargaining and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe has a focus on Rus', it engages actively in the study of neighboring polities like Poland and Hungary, thus providing an overview of the region beyond national boundaries that, as the author notes, are more a modern imposition than a relevant concept for the time under study. Thanks to Raffensperger’s approach to doing history, Rus' becomes seamlessly integrated in the fabric of East European politics in the Middle Ages.