Rampart Nations

Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya is currently a Research Associate at the University of Amsterdam and a Self-supporting Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. She is the author of the books: Die Militarisierung der Heiligen in Vormoderne und Moderne (2020); Iconic Turns: Nation and Religion in Eastern European Cinema Since 1989 (2013; co-edited with Christian Schmitt); and The World to Come: Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgment (2015; co-authored with John-Paul Himka).

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Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration and Toponyms



PART I: BACKGROUND



Introduction: Constructing a Rampart Nation: Conceptual Framework

Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher



Chapter 1. The Origins of Antemurale Christianitatis Myths: Remarks on the Promotion of a Political Concept

Kerstin Weiand



PART II: (DE-)SACRALIZING AND NATIONALIZING BORDERLANDS



Chapter 2. Not a Bulwark, But a Part of the Larger Catholic Community: The Romanian Greek Catholic Church in Transylvania (1700–1850)

Ciprian Ghisa



Chapter 3. Securitizing the Polish Bulwark:The Mission of Lviv in Polish Travel Guides During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Heidi Hein-Kircher



Chapter 4. Ghetto as an "Inner Antemurale"? Debates on Exclusion, Integration, and Identity in Galicia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Jürgen Heyde



Chapter 5. Holy Ground and a Bulwark against "the Other”: The (Re)Construction of an Orthodox Crimea in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire

Kerstin S. Jobst



Chapter 6. Bastions of Faith in the Oceans of Ambiguities: Monasteries in the East European Borderlands (Late Nineteenth– Beginning of the Twentieth Century)

Liliya Berezhnaya



Chapter 7. "The Turkish Wall:" Turkey as an Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Bulwark in the Twentieth Century

Zaur Gasimov



PART III: PROMOTING ANTEMURALE DISCOURSES



Chapter 8. Why Didn’t the Antemurale Historical Mythology Develop in Early Nineteenth-Century Ukraine?

Volodymyr Kravchenko



Chapter 9. Translating the Border(s) in a Multilingual and Multiethnic Society: Antemurale Myths in Polish and Ukrainian Schoolbooks of the Habsburg Monarchy

Philipp Hofeneder



Chapter 10. Mediating the Antemurale Myth in East Central Europe: Religion and Politics in Modern Geographers' Entangled Lives and Maps

Steven Seegel



Chapter 11. Bulwarks of Anti-Bolshevism: Russophobic Polemic of the Christian Right in Poland and Hungary in the Interwar Years and Their Roots in the Nineteenth Century

Paul Srodecki



Chapter 12. Defenders of the Russian Land: Viktor Vasnetsov's Warriors and Russia’s Bulwark Myth

Stephen M. Norris



PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BULWARK MYTHS TODAY



Chapter 13. Antemurale Thinking as Historical Myth and Ethnic Boundary Mechanism

Pål Kolstø



Chapter 14. Concluding Thoughts on Central and Eastern European Bulwark Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century

Paul Srodecki



Index