Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Editors’ Preface

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xiv

Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia: An Introduction

pp 1-22

PART ONE - THE CHURCH AND WAR

pp 23-24

Chapter 1 - The Role of the Dalmatian Bishops and Archbishops in Warfare During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: A Case Study on the Archbishops of Split

pp 25-38

Chapter 2 - Thirteenth-Century Hungarian Prelates at War

pp 39-56

Chapter 3 - The Image of “Warrior-Bishops” in the Northern Tradition of the Crusades

pp 57-74

Chapter 4 - Memory of the “Warrior-Bishops” of Płock in the Writings of Jan Długosz

pp 75-96

Chapter 5 - Preachers of War: Dominican Friars as Promoters of the Crusades in the Baltic Region in the Thirteenth Century

pp 97-116

Chapter 6 - Depictions of Violence in Late Romanesque Mural Paintings in Denmark

pp 117-138

PART TWO - RELIGION IN WAR AND ITS CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS

pp 139-140

Chapter 7 - Religious Rituals of War in Medieval Hungary Under the Árpád Dynasty

pp 141-158

Chapter 8 - Pious Rulers, Princely Clerics, and Angels of Light: “Imperial Holy War” Imagery in Twelfth-Century Poland and Rus’

pp 159-188

Chapter 9 - Religion and War in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum: The Examples of Bishop Absalon and King Valdemar I

pp 189-206

Chapter 10 - Rhetoric of War: The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources (Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages)

pp 207-226

Chapter 11 - Civil War as Holy War? Polyphonic Discourses of Warfare During the Internal Struggles in Norway in the Twelfth Century

pp 227-244

Chapter 12 - Martyrdom on the Field of Battle in Livonia During Thirteenth-Century Holy Wars and Christianization: Popular Belief and the Image of a Catholic Frontier

pp 245-262

Chapter 13 - Orthodox Responses to the Baltic Crusades

pp 263-278

Selected Bibliography

pp 279-284

Index

pp 285-310