Anti-Heroes

Negations and Contradictions of the Heroic in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region

Gustavs Strenga, Cordelia Heß (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

213 Seiten

2025
Rombach Wissenschaft (Verlag)
978-3-98858-089-4 (ISBN)

Infos

What makes a hero, and how do societies shape and reshape their heroic figures over time? This book challenges static typologies of what is heroic by exploring the historical processes behind the emergence, transformation and contestation of medieval heroes. Focusing on Sweden, Finland, Prussia and the Baltic regions, the book's contributions examine the earliest moments in which historical figures became enshrined-or condemned-in chronicles, hagiographies and administrative records. This study offers a longue durée perspective on the fluid nature of what is heroic, demonstrating that neither the hero nor their negation is ever absolute-but always historically contingent.With contributions byChristine Ekholst | Tuomas Heikkilä | Cordelia Heß | Philipp Höhn | Georg Jostkleigrewe | Gregory Leighton | Gustavs Strenga This Title is also Available as Open Access.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Baltic Sea Region ; 2
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 224 mm
• Gewicht: 312 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Schlagworte: Century • Finnish Historical Identity • Leif Erikson • Master Wolter von Plettenberg • moral ambiguity • Prussia and Livonia • Scandinavia and Eastern Baltic • Vytautas the Great
• ISBN-10: 3-98858-089-9 / 3988580899
• ISBN-13: 978-3-98858-089-4 / 9783988580894
• Zustand: Neuware