Rhetoric of War : The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources. Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages

KALHOUS, David and Ludmila LUŇÁKOVÁ. Rhetoric of War : The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources. Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages. In Kotecki, Radosław; Selchen Jensen, Carsten; Bennett, Stephen. The Christianity and War in ‘Younger Europe’ : Church at War, Religion in War, Perception of War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia. Amsterdam, Toronto: Arc Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2021, p. 207-225. ISBN 978-1-64189-133-2.

Basic information

• Original name: Rhetoric of War : The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources. Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages
• Authors: KALHOUS, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ludmila LUŇÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Amsterdam, Toronto, The Christianity and War in ‘Younger Europe’ : Church at War, Religion in War, Perception of War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia, p. 207-225, 19 pp. 2021.
• Publisher: Arc Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 60101 History
• Country of publisher: Canada
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121070
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-1-64189-133-2
• Keywords in English: warfare; chronicles; middle ages; east central europe; Cosmas of Prague; Gallus Anonymus; Tale of bygonne years; Widukind
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The authors scrutinized clerical imagination of war in selected medieval chronicles and other narrative sources written between 1000 and 1300 in Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Rus. Firstly, attention was paid to the problem of how much consideration was given to the armed conflicts in those narratives. Secondly, they looked at the conditions under which condition the war was not condemned, but appreciated as a solution of a conflict ( “just war”). Thirdly, it was necessary to study rhetoric devices (vocabulary, metaphoric, body language, etc.) used by medieval chroniclers to describe a war.

Abstract (in Czech)

Autoři zkoumali imaginaci války ve vybraných středověkých kronikách a dalších narativních pramenech psaných mezi lety 1000 a 1300 v Čechách, Maďarsku, Polsku a na Rusi. Nejprve byla pozornost věnována problému, jak velká pozornost byla věnována ozbrojeným konfliktům v těchto příbězích. Zadruhé, zkoumali podmínky, za nichž nebyla válka odsouzena, ale byla oceněna jako řešení konfliktu („spravedlivá válka“). Zatřetí studovali rétorické prostředky (slovní zásobu, metaforiku, řeč těla atd.) používané středověkými kronikáři k popisu války.