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Introduction
No full textIn this second volume of the Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250 series, the aim is to analyze how Nordic elites applied various forms of social resources – bonds of family, friendship, lordship, royal and ecclesiastical offices, etc. – in the ongoing processes of creating and competing for dominant positions in society. How were such networks of personal relations established, maintained, perceived, represented, challenged, or transformed, and first of all: How did people from the Nordic elites make use of such bonds in actual practice? In the introductory chapter the editors discuss the analytical concept of “elite” and outline the book’s geographical scope, its focus on both structure and process, both change and continuity
Friendship and Politics in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum
No full textHermanson Lars. Friendship and Politics in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 83, fasc. 2, 2005. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 261-284
Friendship, love, and brotherhood in medieval Europe, c. 1000-1200
No full textIn this book, Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking affected social identity and political behaviour. With examples taken from eleventh- and twelfth-century northern Europe, the author investigates why friendship was praised both by brotherhoods of aristocratic warriors and by brethren within monastery walls. Social and political functions rested on personal connections rather than a strong central state in the High Middle Ages. This meant that friendship was an important pragmatic instrument for establishing social order and achieving success in the game of politics
How to Legitimate Rebellion and Condemns Usurpation of the Crown: Discourses of Fidelity and Treason in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus
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Discourses of Communion. Abbot William of Aebelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community
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Introduction: Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe c. 650-1350
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