Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Christian Raffensperger is associate professor of history at Wittenberg University. Klappentext This study examines conflict and conflict resolution in medieval Eastern Europe. The author argues that the posturing, limited violence, and shifting alliances within kinship networks often determined the outcome of conflicts in the region, without extensive bloodshed or large-scale warfare. Zusammenfassung This study examines conflict and conflict resolution in medieval Eastern Europe. The author argues that the posturing! limited violence! and shifting alliances within kinship networks often determined the outcome of conflicts in the region! without extensive bloodshed or large-scale warfare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: The Importance of ConflictChapter 2: Conflict as Bargaining Chapter 3: Everyone Goes Home AliveChapter 4: The Kinship Web in Theory and Practice Chapter 5: Iaroslav Sviatopolchich's Kinship Web in ActionChapter 6: Géza II in the Center of a European Kinship WebConclusion: Kinship, Religion, and "Nation": Alternate Identity Issues in Medieval Eastern

Product details

• Authors: Christian Raffensperger, Raffensperger Christian
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781498568524
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6852-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Byzantium: A European Empire and its Legacy; Byzantium: A European Empire a; Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Eastern Europe, European History, military history, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Military / Medieval, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Russia / General