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.
- Front cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Notes on Contributors.
- Chapter 1. War and Peoplehood in the Middle Ages
- Chapter 2. War and Peoplehood through Time
- War and Cultural Difference: The Classical
and Contemporary Debates
- War and Peoplehood: The Sociological Longue Durée
- War and Organizational Power
- Ideology, Peoplehood, and War
- Micro-Solidarity and Warfare
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Making War Ethnic
- Dhū Qār: The Battle and Its Sources
- Dhū Qār Narratives: The “Arabness Façade”
- Dhū Qār in Pre-Islamic Poetry: The Arabian Voices
- Pre-Islamic Poetry: The “Enemy” Identity
- Dhū Qār in Early Islamic and Umayyad Poetry
- Dhū Qār in the Abbasid Period
- Dhū Qār and Persian-ness
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Captive Identities
- Smbat’s Lost Armenians
- Remembering Lost Armenians in the Armenian Kingdoms
- Remembering Lost Armenians in Ani
- Lost Armenians beyond the Bagratuni
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. War and Identity in Early Medieval Bulgaria
- The Emergence of the Bulgar State
- Protracted Conflict and Ethnocentrism
- The Byzantine Influence
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Collective Identifications in Byzantine Civil Wars
- Civil War and the East Roman Vision of Community
- Representations of Collective Identity in Byzantine Civil Wars
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Warfare and Peoplehood
- Viking Conquerors and Their Identities
- Warfare and Englishness
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Medieval European Civil Wars
- Toulouse
- Paris
- Prague
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. The Crusades and French Political Identity in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean
- Frenchness and Crusader Culture
- Law and French Identity in the Areas of Conquest
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. The Song–Jurchen Conflict in Chinese Intellectual History
- Filial Revanchism as a Pillar of Southern Song Irredentism
- Ethnocentric Moralism and Chinese Supremacism
- The Northern Wei Question and the Idea of “Sinicization”
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Faithful to a Vanishing Past
- Mongols, New Mongols, Foreign Mongols
- Facing the Song
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12. War and Collective Identifications in Medieval Societies: Drawing Comparisons
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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