Power in Numbers. State Formation and Christianization on the Eastern Edge of Europe
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F24%3A10489465" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/24:10489465 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.BBL-EB.5.135491" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.BBL-EB.5.135491</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.BBL-EB.5.135491" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.BBL-EB.5.135491</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Power in Numbers. State Formation and Christianization on the Eastern Edge of Europe
Original language description
Around the turn of the first millennium, the political and religious landscape of Central Europe began to change dramatically. As the decentralized pagan societies along its borders became Christian, the polity that later became the Holy Roman Empire began to expand significantly according to the principles of the Imperium Christianum - an idea that first originated with Charlemagne, but that was consciously revived by Emperor Otto I and his predecessors as a way of extending power and authority into the Empire's newly converted eastern fringes. This acculturation was effective, and societies began to actively adopt the new ideology and social order on their own initiative. Drawing on material first presented at conferences held in the Department of Archaeology at Charles University, Prague, this volume draws together researchers working on different yet connected events along the Empire's eastern frontier, and the often-overlooked part of society who nevertheless participated in these events, in particular commoners and the rural population. The papers gathered here cover affairs of the early state and church, networks of archaeological and historical heritage, and archaeological, historical, and digital investigations, to offer a blend of both synthetic archaeological and historical overviews and more focused geographical and thematic case studies that explore the role of Christianization in the centralization processes that occurred at the edge of the Ottonian-Salian world. The result is a forward-looking volume that seeks to explore new approaches to historical narratives, in particular by emphasizing the importance of archaeological material in examining early state formation and religious change. Moreover, it is the first synthetic study to directly compare the north-east and south-east peripheries of the later Holy Roman Empire, making it possible to shed new light on these lands at the periphery of Western Christendom.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GF23-07883K" target="_blank" >GF23-07883K: Religiopolitics - the Imperium Christianum and its Commoners (REPLICO)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
ISBN
978-2-503-60861-7
Number of pages
308
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
UT code for WoS book
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