Projects funded by the NCN


Information on the principal investigator and host institution

Information of the project and the call

Keywords

Equipment

Delete all

Symbolic Resources and Political Structures on the Periphery: Legitimization of the Elites in Poland and Norway, c. 1000-1300.

2019/34/H/HS3/00500

Keywords:

elites peripheries legitimization Poland Norway Middle Ages

Descriptors:

  • HS3_1: Early history (ancient, medieval, early modern history), modern and contemporary history (19th - 20th c.)
  • HS3_5: Cultural history (incl. historical memory, history of material culture, historical cultural studies, cultural diversity)
  • HS3_3: Political history (incl. political systems)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Historii

woj.

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Grzegorz Leszek Pac 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 18

Call: GRIEG 1 - announced on 2019-06-17

Amount awarded: 6 384 616 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2020-10-01

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-04-30

Project duration:: 43 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Project description

Download the project description in a pdf file

Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (24)
  1. St Adalbert as a Stranger-King: Heroization and Othering of a Holy Man in the Middle Ages
    Authors:
    Wojtek Jezierski
    Academic press:
    History and Anthropology (rok: 2023, tom: unknown, strony: 1–22), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02757206.2023.2275786 - link to the publication
  2. Making Christian Rulership on the Peripheries of the Latin World
    Authors:
    Zbigniew Dalewski, Hans Jacob Orning
    Academic press:
    Acta Poloniae Historica (rok: 2024, tom: 129, strony: 65-101), Wydawca: The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/APH.2024.129.03 - link to the publication
  3. Introduction: Languages of Power and Elite Legitimization on the Periphery, Poland and Norway, 1000–1300
    Authors:
    Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, Grzegorz Pac
    Academic press:
    Acta Poloniae Historica (rok: 2024, tom: 129, strony: 45807), Wydawca: The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/APH.2024.129.01 - link to the publication
  4. Feasting and Elite Legitimization in Poland and Norway: Propaganda, Political Economy, and Recognition in a Comparative Perspective, 1000–1300
    Authors:
    Wojtek Jezierski, Paweł Żmudzki
    Academic press:
    Acta Poloniae Historica (rok: 2024, tom: 129, strony: 103-142), Wydawca: The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/APH.2024.129.04 - link to the publication
  5. Centripetal and Centrifugal Cults of the Patron Saints on the Periphery: Hagiography of St Adalbert and St Olav as Institutional Legitimation
    Authors:
    Kacper Bylinka
    Academic press:
    Collegium Medievale (rok: 2025, tom: 38, strony: 23 pages), Wydawca: Collegium Medievale: Society for Medieval Studies
    Status:
    Submitted
  6. Holy Bishops, Papal Canonization and the Legitimization of Power in Thirteenth-Century Norway and Poland: The Cases of Eystein Erlendsson of Nidaros and Stanislaus of Kraków
    Authors:
    Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac
    Academic press:
    Acta Poloniae Historica (rok: 2024, tom: 129, strony: 143-184), Wydawca: The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/APH.2024.129.05 - link to the publication
  7. Trimming the Tangle of Legend: Heroic Haircuts, Materializing Meals, and the Legitimization of Dynastic Succession in Norwegian and Polish Foundation Narratives
    Authors:
    Benjamin Allport, Rafał Rutkowski
    Academic press:
    Acta Poloniae Historica (rok: 2024, tom: 129, strony: 31-63), Wydawca: The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/APH.2024.129.02 - link to the publication
  8. St Adalbert as a Stranger-King: Heroization and Othering of a Holy Man in the Middle Ages
    Authors:
    Wojtek Jezierski
    Academic press:
    History and Anthropology (rok: 2024, tom: unknown, strony: 33), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Submitted
  1. Sacral strongholds: Nunneries as sources of legitimacy in twelfth-century Poland and Norway
    Authors:
    Anna Agnieszka Dryblak, Steffen Hope
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 46 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. The Cult of Saints in Elite Identity Construction in the Peripheries. The Cases of St Cnut of Denmark and St Wenceslas of Bohemia
    Authors:
    Kacper Bylinka
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 267-289), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137540 - link to the publication
  3. From St Olaf to the Relic of the Crown of Thorns. The Legitimization of Royal Power in Thirteenth-Century Norway
    Authors:
    Jerzy Pysiak
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 159-182), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137535 - link to the publication
  4. The Cult of Saints and the Legitimization of Ecclesiastical and Secular Elites on the Periphery: Conclusions
    Authors:
    Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 439-448), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137547 - link to the publication
  5. Saints and Elites on the Periphery: An Introduction
    Authors:
    Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 15-48), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137529 - link to the publication
  6. The Prague Nunnery and its Patroness, St Ludmila. Legitimization and Mutual Support
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Pac
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 217-240), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137538 - link to the publication
  7. From St Florian to St Stanislaus. The Legitimization of Ducal and Episcopal Power in Kraków in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Century
    Authors:
    Karolina Morawska
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 135-158), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137534 - link to the publication
  8. Ancient Pasts and Traditions as Elite Legitimation in Poland and Norway: Peripheral Senses of Belonging and Non-Belonging
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Bartusik, Rafał Rutkowski, Wojtek Jezierski
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 32 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  9. St Hedwig of Silesia. The First Dynastic Saint of the Piasts and the Legitimization of Power at a Time of Change in the Thirteenth Century
    Authors:
    Anna Agnieszka Dryblak
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 385-412), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137545 - link to the publication
  10. Introduction: Comparing Elite Legitimation in Poland and Norway in the High Middle Ages
    Authors:
    Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, Grzegorz Pac
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 45 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  11. Legitimizing Episcopal Power in Twelfth-Century Denmark through the Cult of Saints
    Authors:
    Steffen Hope
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 311-330), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137542 - link to the publication
  12. Non-native Saints: Introduction
    Authors:
    Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 51-55), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137530 - link to the publication
  13. The cult of St. Ludmila in medieval Latin calendars
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Pac
    Book:
    Saint Ludmila – Women in the Christianization of Central Europe / Heilige Ludmila – Frauen der Zeit der Christianisierung Mitteleuropas (rok: 2023, tom: 1, strony: 18 pages), Wydawca: Karolinum
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  14. Dynastic Conflicts: Civil Wars or Constant Struggles
    Authors:
    Hans Jacob Orning, Marcin Rafał Pauk
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 37 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  15. When the Knight Won his Spurs: Elite Military Ideology in Poland and Norway, c. 965–1300
    Authors:
    Benjamin Allport, Paweł Żmudzki
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 38 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  16. Queens and Duchesses in the High Middle Ages: The Role of Elite Women in Shaping Dynastic Legitimation in Times of Political Change
    Authors:
    Anna Agnieszka Dryblak, Benjamin Husvik
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 37 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  17. Saints and legitimization of bishoprics in Poland and Norway until c. 1200
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 50 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  18. Legitimisation and consolidation of rulership in Norway and Poland c. 990–1140 as indicated through coinage
    Authors:
    Mika Viktoria Boros
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 43 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  19. The cult of St. Ludmila in medieval Latin calendars
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Pac
    Book:
    Saint Ludmila – Women in the Christianization of Central Europe / Heilige Ludmila – Frauen der Zeit der Christianisierung Mitteleuropas (rok: 2023, tom: 1, strony: 18 pages), Wydawca: Karolinum
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  20. Missionary Rulers and Holy Men. Christianization as Elite Legitimization and Political Ideology in Poland and Norway, 1000-1300
    Authors:
    Wojtek Jezierski, Roman Michałowski
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 46 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  21. Coinage, the cult of saints, and the legitimization of elites in eleventh- and twelfth-century Poland and Norway
    Authors:
    Steffen Hope, Mateusz Bogucki, Svein Harald Gullbekk,
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 38 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  22. The Contrast between the Ideology and Practice of Rulership in Medieval Poland and Norway
    Authors:
    Zbigniew Dalewski, Hans Jacob Orning
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 39 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  23. Struggles for Episcopal Legitimation during the Gregorian Reform in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Norway and Poland
    Authors:
    Jerzy Pysiak, Krzysztof Skwierczyński
    Book:
    Elite Legitimation in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac (rok: 2025, tom: 1, strony: 32 pages), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  24. Native Saints: Introduction
    Authors:
    Native Saints: Introduction, p. 211 Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
    Book:
    The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, eds. Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 211-215), Wydawca: Brepols
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.137537 - link to the publication