Common Culture and the Ideology of Difference in Medieval and Contemporary Poland

Teresa Pac

doi:10.5771/9781793626929

Summary

Teresa Pac provides a much-needed contribution to the discussion on shared culture as foundational to societal survival. Through the examination of common culture as a process in medieval Kraków, Poznań, and Lublin, Pac challenges the ideology of difference—institutional, religious, ethnic, and nationalistic. Similarly, Pac maintains, twenty-first century Polish leaders utilize anachronistic approaches in the invention of Polish Catholic identity to counteract the country’s increasing ethnic and religious diversity. As in the medieval period, contemporary Polish political and social elites subscribe to the European Union’s ideology of difference, legitimized by a European Christian heritage, and its intended basis for discrimination against non-Christians and non-white individuals under the auspices of democratic values and minority rights, among which Muslims are a significant target.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2691-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2692-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 332
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Preface No access
1. Notes No access
1. The Polish Kingdom in the Making No access
2. The Cities of Kraków, Poznań, and Lublin: A Variety of Power Centers No access
3. Commercial Rather than Agricultural Economy as a Foundation of Civic Life No access
4. Ethnic and Religious Integration as a Norm No access
5. Legal, Physical, and Symbolic Markers of Urban Identity No access
6. Spoken and Written Multilingualism in Kraków, Poznań, and Lublin No access
7. Urban Built Environment as Shared Cultural Institutions No access
8. 1. City Councils No access
  2. Catholic Guilds No access
  3. Jewish Qahals No access
  4. The Fundamental Social Networks No access
9. Different Religious Practices, Shared Aesthetics No access
10. Sharing Work and Time No access
11. Common Taste in Fashion and Social Division No access
12. Culture of Money No access
13. Charity: Legitimizing the Invention of the Poor and the Sick No access
14. Conclusion No access
15. Notes No access
1. The Increased Political Complexity, Multiculturalism, and Shared Interest in Profit from Eastward Expansion No access
2. The Increased Commercial Rather than Agricultural Economy No access
3. Reinvention and Changes of Power Centers No access
4. City Walls: Legal, Physical, and Symbolic Markers of Urban Identity and Cultural Diversity No access
5. INCREASED MULTILINGUALISM, LITERACY, AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS No access
6. Urban Places as Expanded Shared Cultural Institutions No access
7. 1. The City Councils No access
  2. Transformation of the Fifteenth-Century Guild System No access
  3. The Reproduction of the Jewish Qahals No access
  4. Increased Number of Catholic Fraternities No access
8. The Fundamental Social Networks No access
9. 1. Reproduction of the Concepts of Time and Work No access
  2. Shared Beliefs and Customs No access
  3. New Fashion Trends and Reinvented Social Hierarchy No access
  4. The Politicized Culture of Money, Consumption, and “Crime” No access
  5. Increased Investments in Producing the Poor and the Sick No access
  6. The Hussites: The Cultural Change Generated by Ethnic and Religious Integration No access
10. The Art and Spectacles of the Catholic Church’s Wishful Homogeneity No access
11. Conclusion No access
12. Notes No access
1. The Concept of the Royal Institution No access
2. 1. A Hereditary Coronation: Kazimierz III Wielki No access
3. Filling the Dynastic Gap: The Funeral of Kazimierz III Wielki and the Coronation of Louis I of Anjou No access
4. 1. Władysław II Jagiełło (Ladislaus Jagiellon, Jogaila) No access
5. 1. Kazimierz IV Jagiellończyk No access
6. The Enhancement of the Dynastic Narratives through Culture of Writing No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. 1. Shaping New Political Power through Administrative Reconstruction No access
  2. Catholicized Neoliberal Economy No access
  3. Toward a Restricted Notion of Multiculturalism No access
  4. White Catholic Poles as the “True Owners” of Poland No access
  5. Recycling the Symbolic Language of Christian Elitism and Capitalism No access
2. 1. The Polish Language as a Potent Political Weapon No access
  2. Religious Minorities No access
  3. The Invention of Indigenous People as National and Ethnic Minorities No access
3. 1. Cities as Catholic Commercial Centers: Recycling Catholic Heritage No access
  2. The Clash of Neoliberal Urbanism and the Right-to-the-City Movement No access
  3. Decommunization of the Visual Urban Landscape in Support of the Catholic and Capitalist Narrative No access
  4. Core and Non-Core Heritages: Divided or Excluded? No access
  5. The Bottom-Up City Branding: Challenging Urban Discourses through Art No access
  6. Murals: Conflicting Artistic Discourses Supported by the Cities No access
  7. Graffiti: The Voices of Neglected Youth No access
  8. The Politics of Festivities No access
  9. Protests No access
4. 1. Culinary Culture No access
  2. Fashion: Common Taste, Identity Formation, and Social Struggle No access
  3. Values No access
  4. Elitist Privilege in Control of Symbolic Language No access
  5. Charity: A Camouflage for Produced Poverty, Homelessness, and Gender Roles No access
5. 1. Neoliberalism as the Defining Element of the EU No access
  2. Restricted Multiculturalism and Segregational Policies of Equality in the EU and Germany No access
  3. Minorities and Workers as a Disposable Global Proletariat No access
6. 1. The Catholic Elite Narrative No access
  2. Western Linear Christian Art: A Historical Narrative No access
  3. The Heritage Assets No access
  4. Producing European Citizens through Education No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Note No access
Bibliography No access Pages 257 - 312
Index No access Pages 313 - 330
About the Author No access Pages 331 - 332