Concluding Remarks: Languages of Power and Elite Legitimisation in Poland and Norway, 1000–1300

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https://doi.org/10.12775/APH.2024.129.06

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power, elite, power legitimisation, comparative history, centre and periphery

Abstract

The articles in the volume demonstrate that comparative history can break out of the straight-jacket of supposed geographical constraints, and show how more detailed comparative studies of various aspects of legitimisation can reveal the nuances behind seemingly uniform patterns. The concluding remarks further elaborate on these points and raise questions concerning the terminology of centre and periphery.

Author Biography

Nora Berend, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Nora Berend – medieval religious and cultural interaction, the formation of identity, and uses of the medieval in the present; professor of European History at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College. Her publications include At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and ‘Pagans’ in Medieval Hungary, c. 1000 – c. 1300 (2001); (ed.) Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900–1200 (2007).

References

Bagge Sverre, Society and Politics in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla (Berkeley–Los Angeles, 1991).

Berend Nora, ‘The mirage of East-Central Europe: historical regions in a comparative perspective’, in Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende (eds), Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective (London, 2016), 9–23.

Berend Nora (ed.), Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy (Cambridge, 2007).

De Cevins Marie-Madeleine (ed.), Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Bohême, Hongrie et Pologne du VIIe au XVIe siècle (Paris, 2021).

Gieysztor Aleksander, L’Europe nouvelle autour de l’an mil. La papauté, l’empire et les ‘nouveaux venus’ (Rome, 1997).

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2024-07-31

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BEREND, Nora. Concluding Remarks: Languages of Power and Elite Legitimisation in Poland and Norway, 1000–1300. Acta Poloniae Historica. Online. 31 July 2024. Vol. 129, pp. 185-196. [Accessed 1 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/APH.2024.129.06.

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Vol. 129 (2024)

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LANGUAGES OF POWER AND ELITE LEGITIMISATION IN POLAND AND NORWAY, 1000–1300

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