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Normanowie, wikingowie a ich przedstawienia w świecie gier komputerowych (na wybranych przykładach)

2018

Pomimo ogromnego postępu w badaniach skandynawskich i normańskich, istnieje jeszcze pole we współczesnej popkulturze, które powiela pewne stare stereotypy. To rynek gier komputero-wych, który kwitnie od ponad czterdziestu lat. Dlatego w artykule przedstawiono to zjawisko chronologicznie – na wybranych przykładach od lat 80. do chwili obecnej. Uczyniono to na pod-stawie tytułów na komputery C, najczęściej strategii i gier R G (Role laying Games), ponieważ ta platforma jest jedną z najstarszych i pomimo szybkiego rozwoju konsol, wciąż im nie uległa. Niestety, nie istnieje literatury naukowa poświęcona wikingom i Normanom w grach wideo, więc do pewnego stopnia badania są pionierskie. Podczas g…

Normanowie w dziełach Geralda z Walii a świat bizantyński

2018

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the selscted works of one of the twelfth century Normans historian living in the British Isles, Gerald de Barri of Wales (1146-1223) in terms of knowledge of the Byzantine world and its correlation with the Normans (from England and Southern Italy). The term Byzantine world has been evolving for several decades. Today it refers no longer just to the land of the former East European Empire, which later transformed itself into the Greek Byzantium, but it can be referred to the Balans or the Kingdom of Normandy, while scientists are constantly expanding its borders with the help of other sciences such as archeology. We will do this based on his work…

The conquest of Malta by the Normans in 1091 as an example of a Norman landing operation

2017

The Konstostephanos Family - Worst or the best mega douxes of Komnenian Navy in the 12th century?

2018

Szwabowie przeciwko Normanom w bitwie pod Civitate w 1053 r. Pomiędzy skandynawską a bizantyńską sztuką prowadzenia wojny

2017

The Battle of Civitate in 1053 was the clash of two worlds. On the one hand, the people of Italy, who defended the old status quo, led by Pope Leo IX. These descendants of the Lombards and the ancient Romans, stand in front of the descendants of the Danes and Norwegians, who earlier created state later called Normandy. The Normans were the new factor, which disrupted the fragile balance of forces in the Mezzogiorno, between the world of Latin, the Greeks, and Islam. The nwecomers from the north of France, only nominally resembled their pedecessors from Scandinavia, representing a new school of warfare, in which they in a kind of synthesis combined the world of the Vikings and the Carolingia…

The Norman myth in the artistic culture of Hapsburgs’ Sicily: identity construction and representation of power

2015

In Sicilia, nell’Ottocento, si assistette in architettura a un revival neonormanno che trovava in quel momento glorioso della storia isolana la legittimazione per rivendicazioni autonomiste mirate alla ricostituzione di un regno di Sicilia finalmente libero dal giogo borbonico e da Napoli. Tuttavia, un fenomeno culturale analogo si era già registrato nel corso del xvi secolo. Nel rinascimento siciliano, infatti, si guardò non soltanto al classicismo e alla Roma dei Cesari, ma anche all’eredità del medioevo normanno, nel tentativo forse di costruire un’identità per un’isola, come la Sicilia asburgica, non libera e melting pot di culture diverse. Il caso del mito normanno presenta, però, in s…

The role of Bishop Conrad of Querfurt in the actions of Emperor Henry VI Hohenstaufen in Southern Italy. In the shadow of a great European policy (Ge…

2019

Conrad of Querfurt (ca. 1160–1202) was one of the most important and influential German bishops at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries. He was associated with the Hohenstaufen dynasty. As a result, he became the bishop of Hildesheim (1194–1199), and then the bishop of Würzburg (1198–1202), as well as served two German kings from that family as chancellor (1194–1201). Conrad of Querfurt was a man of extremely broad political horizons and great ambitions. It was not a coincidence that the title of chancellor, along with the governorship of the Norman kingdom, was given to him by Henry VI. He took great care of his public image, which he proved by sponsoring the work of Peter of Eboli, tit…

Le diocèse de Salerne au Moyen Âge : dynamiques historiques et organisation de l’espace - The Diocese of Salerne in the Middle Ages: Historical Dynam…

2015

In the middle ages, particularly between the 10th – 14th centuries, the Diocese of Salerno was among the most important ones in southern Italy. Its earliest records date back to the late 5th century and during the 10th it was elevated to archdiocese; so the city of Salerno became the center of a large diocese, among the largest of Southern Italy. This essay reconstructs the history of diocese and its public symbols (like the cathedral), demonstrating consistency with that of other Italian dioceses but, at the same time, also highlighting some specifi city resulting from more general historical dynamics of Salerno and the role it played in the southern part of Italy.