Imagined Communities ― Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on how perceptions of community, its shared history and imagined present, created a collective identity in medieval societies.

Andrzej Pleszczynski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, is Professor of Medieval European History. He has published monographs and articles on Polish-Czech-German relations, including The Birth of a Stereotype. Polish Rulers and their Country in German Writings c. 1000 A.D. (Brill, 2011).Joanna Sobiesiak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, is Professor of Medieval Studies, focusing on the history of Bohemia from the 10th to 12th centuries.Michal Tomaszek, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland is a historian of the Middle Ages focusing on history-writing in the context of Benedictine abbeys.Przemyslaw Tyszka, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, is an early medieval historian. His publications include The Human Body in Barbarian Laws, c, 500 – c. 800. Corpus Hominis as a Cultural Category (Peter Lang, 2014).