War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages : East, West, and Beyond. War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages : East, West, and Beyond / edited by Yannis Stouraitis.

War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages : East, West, and Beyond.
War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages : East, West, and Beyond / edited by Yannis Stouraitis.

First edition.

9781641893626
9781802701067

Leeds, England : Arc Humanities Press, [2023]

©2023

English

1 online resource (viii, 238 pages).

HM554 .W37 2023

303.66

This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the longue durée development of the phenomena of ethnicity and nationhood by drawing attention to the impact of war on the evolution of various types of polity and visions of community in the Middle Ages. Its use of non-European as well as European exemplars provides a wealth of fruitful comparative material, shedding new light on the relationship between medieval warfare and high-level identities.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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War and conflict in premodern societies.

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