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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979-
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Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- What anxieties did medieval missionaries and crusaders face and what role did the sense of risk play in their community-building? To what extent did crusaders and Christian colonists empathize with the local populations they set out to conquer? Who were the hosts and who were the guests during the confrontations with the pagan societies on the Baltic Rim? And how were the uncertainties of the conversion process addressed in concrete encounters and in the accounts of Christian authors?This book explores emotional bonding as well as practices and discourses of hospitality as uncertain means of evangelization, interaction, and socialization across cultural divides on the Baltic Rim, c. 1000–1300. It focuses on interactions between local populations and missionary communities, as well as crusader frontier societies. By applying tools of historical anthropology to the study of host-guest relations, spaces of hospitality, emotional communities, and empathy on the fronts of Christianization, this book offers fresh insights and approaches to the manner in which missionaries and crusaders reflexively engaged with the groups targeted by Christianization in terms of practice, ethics, and identity.
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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979
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Spaces of Hospitality on the Missionary Baltic Rim, Tenth–Twelfth Centuries
- 2022
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Ingår i: Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe, ed. Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt. - Cham : Palgrave Mcmillan. - 9783030985264 ; , s. 33-62
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter studies examples of confrontations between missionary guests and pagan host communities on the Baltic Rim from the late tenth to mid-twelfth centuries to uncover the spatial dynamics and intercultural articulations of hospitality in Christianization contexts. In terms of method, the chapter focuses on the functional, political, and symbolic mechanisms structuring collective production spaces of hospitality during such encounters. The addressed problems consider how spaces of hospitality were practically and discursively produced and negotiated through such meetings. It delves also into the ways arrival of this special type of Christian strangers and guests was contained in terms of power relations and security measures. And, finally, how these interactions involved and oscillated between hospitable and hostile attitudes. The results point out the deeply ambiguous, volatile, and heavily contested nature of spaces of hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, both for missionary agents and for the host communities receiving/rejecting them.
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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979
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St Adalbert as a stranger-king: The heroization and estrangement of a holy man in the Middle Ages
- 2023
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Ingår i: History and Anthropology. - 0275-7206.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There was no holy king in Poland during the Middle Ages. Although the Piast polity belonged to the North-eastern European periphery (East-Central Europe and Scandinavia), where essentially all post-1000 CE polities boasted dynastic martyred holy rulers of native origin, the Piasts never elevated a member of their kin to such a position. The present article takes this puzzling exception as a point of departure to advance the argument that the episcopal holy patron of Poland of Bohemian origin–St Adalbert (c. 956–997)–may in many regards be interpreted as a version of Marshall Sahlins’s stranger-king. By combining anthropological theory and comparative evidence, the article explores the locally produced hagiographical sources from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries in order to demonstrate how St Adalbert’s heroic status and retroactively invented ethnic and sacral otherness were exploited for the purposes of institutional and king-like legitimacy vis-à-vis the Polish people. In its conclusions the article argues that concepts and comparative methods from political anthropology can help us to reconsider the category of holy rulers and offer new ways of reading hagiographical sources as political treatises.
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- Jezierski, Wojtek
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St Adalbertus Domesticus. Patterns Of Missioning and Episcopal Power in Poland and Scandinavia in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
- 2019
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Ingår i: Acta Poloniae Historica. - : Instytut Historii PAN. - 0001-6829. ; :119, s. 209-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the ways episcopal milieus on the north-eastern peripheries of Europe created and renewed their identities and symbols of episcopal authority by domesticating their immigrant saints during the high Middle Ages. By comparing the examples of holy bishops arriving to Poland and Sweden (St Adalbert, St Sigfrid, St Henry), it studies the episcopal mythopoesis, that is, the creation of foundational myths and mythologies as well as their adaptation to specific local needs and changing historical circumstances. The article further probes to what extent these mythopoetic efforts were original or imitative in comparison to the Western European episcopal centres and other peripheries. How similarly or differently did the bishops in the "old" and "young" Europe respond to the question: What beginnings do we need today? And what role did the appropriation, commodification, and domestication of holy bishops' images and body parts play in building the institutional identities of bishoprics?
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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979
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Udomawianie św. Wojciecha. Mitologizacja misjonarstwa i władzy biskupiej w Polsce i w Skandynawii od XI do XIII w.
- 2020
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Ingår i: Roman Michałowski, Grzegorz Pac (eds.), Oryginalność czy wtórność? Studia poświęcone polskiej kulturze politycznej i religijnej (X−XIII wiek). - Warszawa : University of Warsaw Press. - 9788323542018 ; , s. 447-490
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The authors of the articles aim to examine to what extent Polish culture in 10th-13th century was original or secondary. In Poland, some elements of Catholic spirituality – formed outside its borders – settled in faster or more slowly, some carried more weight than in the West, some were omitted. It did happen, however, that some processes taking place in Catholic church originated in Poland.
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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979, et al.
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When did Sweden become forever?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X. ; 138:3, s. 510-525
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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979, et al.
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Writing a compilation thesis in history: The challenges and opportunities for students and faculty
- 2024
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Ingår i: HISTORISK TIDSKRIFT. - 0345-469X. ; 144:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the challenges and opportunities of writing and defending a compilation thesis (composed of several articles and an extensive introduction) in Sweden in the discipline of history, which traditionally leans towards monographs. The authors explore PhD education as an interstitial field, combining elements of education and research, that is governed by partially conflicting expectations about forms of academic publication and evaluation. The investigation encompasses challenges and opportunities faced by PhD students during their postgraduate education, self -reported, as perceived by senior scholars, and structural, embedded within PhD education. Empirically this study builds on two types of data. First, it presents an extensive survey of the literature on the academic quality of compilation theses in several disciplines, with a special focus on history. Second, it builds on in-depth interviews with three former PhD students in history (from the 199Os to the 2O2Os) who are still active in the field, and their experiences of writing a compilation thesis and its impact on their subsequent careers. The issues they raised ranged from academic independence and control to the resistance they encountered in the discipline and how they dealt with it. The article makes a number of practical recommendations for how postgraduate education in history could address and alleviate some of the challenges of writing a compilation thesis.
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