Mittelalterliche Eliten und Kulturtransfer östlich der Elbe interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Archäologie und Geschichte im mittelalterlichen Ostmitteleuropa

• अन्य लेखक: Klammt, Anne (संपादक), Rossignol, Sébastien (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• प्रकाशित: Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2009
• विषय: History; European history; Medieval history; archaeology; social and religious structures in Eastern and Middle Europe; Eastern Europe; cultural transfer; medieval history
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

सारांश

The different written and archaeological sources give a very heterogeneous picture of the social and religious structures in Eastern Middle Europe. Recent developments in modern archaeological and historical research have shown new approaches to the analysis of elites. In every society there is a leading minority, who cumulates both wealth and prestige and is characterized by an elevated social rank, reputation and acceptance. An external marker of these elites is especially the superregional transfer of certain items, but also of the culturally encoded value systems. The present study asks whether this notion of cultural transfer, developed in the context of modern history, can be applied as well to the study of mutual influences between the elites of medieval Western and Eastern Middle Europe. It also raises the question if this terminology is equally useful for the analysis of written and material sources, and to what extent it might open a new perspective on the rich but as yet often unexplored history of the lands east of the Elbe river.

आईएसबीएन

gup2009-362

अभिगमन

Open Access