Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities,

13 papers by 16 leading archaeologists and historians of late antiquity and the early middle ages break new ground in their discussion, analysis and criticism o

Referring, by way of example, to the chronicler's story about a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland, this book offers an insight into the modes of using ritual

A study of how bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship shaped medieval European political life.