Risk, emotions, and hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300
What anxieties did medieval missionaries and crusaders face and what role did the sense of risk play in their community-building? To what extent did crusaders and Christian colonists empathize with the local populations they set out to conquer? Who were the hosts and who were the guests during the c...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout
Brepols
2022
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Early European research (volume 17)
Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Early European research
volume 17 |
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Baltic countries
/ Christianization
/ Missionary
/ Population
/ Interaction
/ History 1000-1300
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| Further subjects: | B
Christianization
B History 1000-1300 B Baltic countries |
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| Summary: | What anxieties did medieval missionaries and crusaders face and what role did the sense of risk play in their community-building? To what extent did crusaders and Christian colonists empathize with the local populations they set out to conquer? Who were the hosts and who were the guests during the confrontations with the pagan societies on the Baltic Rim? And how were the uncertainties of the conversion process addressed in concrete encounters and in the accounts of Christian authors? This book explores emotional bonding as well as practices and discourses of hospitality as uncertain means of evangelization, interaction, and socialization across cultural divides on the Baltic Rim, c. 1000-1300. It focuses on interactions between local populations and missionary communities, as well as crusader frontier societies. By applying tools of historical anthropology to the study of host-guest relations, spaces of hospitality, emotional communities, and empathy on the fronts of Christianization, this book offers fresh insights and approaches to the manner in which missionaries and crusaders reflexively engaged with the groups targeted by Christianization in terms of practice, ethics, and identity |
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| ISBN: | 2503600395 |