Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Chapter 1; Introduction; Part 1; Dynasty and Power; Chapter 2; Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe in the 11th-13th Centuries; Dániel Bagi; Chapter 3; Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the 10th-11th Centuries; Zbigniew Dalewski; Chapter 4; 'Rex imperator in regno suo'
  • An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse; Georg Jostkleigrewe; Part 2; Spirituality; Chapter 5.
  • The King and the Saint against the Scots: The Shaping of English National Identity in the 12th Century Narrative of King Athelstan's Victory over His Northern NeighboursTomasz Tarczyński; Chapter 6; Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th Centuries; Michał Tomaszek; Part 3; Social Condition and Gender; Chapter 7.
  • The Law as an Element Organizing and Identifying a Community in the Narratives of the Origins of the Kingdoms of Britain, (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae, John of Fordun, Chronica Gentis Scottorum)Bartosz Klusek; Chapter 8; Creating the Past and Shaping Identity
  • Angevin Dynastic Legend ('Gesta consulum Andegavorum'); Karol Szejgiec; Chapter 9; Creating Knightly Identities? Scottish Lords and Their Leaders in the Narratives about Great Moments in Community History (between John Barbour's The Bruce and Blind Hary's Wallace); Wojciech Michalski; Chapter 10.
  • People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social IdentitiesTatiana Vilkul; Chapter 11; The Identity of Self-Governing Groups (Guilds and Communes) in the Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity; Andrzej Pleszczyński; Chapter 12; The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of Penitentials; Przemysław Tyszka; Part 4; Region; Chapter 13; A Surfeit of Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and the Idea of Britain; Euryn Rhys Roberts; Chapter 14.
  • Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe (11th-15th C.)Przemysław Wiszewski; Chapter 15; The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th Century; Stanisław Rosik; Part 5; We and the Others; Chapter 16; Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People; Mariusz Bartnicki; Chapter 17; Czechs and Germans: Nationals and Foreigners in the Work of Czech Chroniclers: from Cosmas of Prague; Joanna Sobiesiak; Chapter 18.