The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier

A new world into old words : the eastern Baltic region and the cultural geography of medieval Europe -- The Baltic Crusades : a clash of two identities -- The emergence of Livonia : on the transformations of the social and political structures in the territory of Latvia during the twelfth and thirte...

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Contributors: Murray, Alan V. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Editor) ; Huijbers, Anne (Contributor) ; Warwzyniak, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2009
In:Year: 2009
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Baltic countries / War / History 1150-1600
B Cultural contact
B Religion
B Baltic area / Borderland / History 1150-1400
Further subjects:B Crusades
B Collection of essays
B Baltic States Relations (Europe, Western)
B Baltic Sea Region History
B Culture conflict Baltic Sea Region History To 1500
B Baltic States Ethnic relations History
B Livonia History
B Europe Territorial expansion
B Europe, Western Relations (Baltic States)
B Baltic States Church history
B Culture conflict (Baltic States) History To 1500
B Baltic States Historiography
B Catholic Church History
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Summary:A new world into old words : the eastern Baltic region and the cultural geography of medieval Europe -- The Baltic Crusades : a clash of two identities -- The emergence of Livonia : on the transformations of the social and political structures in the territory of Latvia during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Sweden's conquest of Finland : a clash of cultures? -- Pope Honorius III and mission and crusade in the Baltic region -- Violent victims? : surprising aspects of the just war theory in the chronicle of Peter von Dusburg -- Sacralization of the landscape : converting trees and measuring land in the Danish Crusades against the Wends -- How to convert a landscape : Henry of Livonia and the Chronicon Livoniae -- Rural society and religious innovation : acceptance and rejection of Catholicism among the native inhabitants of medieval Livonia -- Saints' cults in medieval Livonia -- Sterile monsters : Russians and the Orthodox Church in the chronicle of Henry of Livonia -- Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod, the Fortress of Orekhov, and the defence of Orthodoxy -- Orthodox churches in medieval Livonia -- Music and cultural conflict in the Christianization of Livonia, 1190-1290 -- Crossbows or catapults? : the identification of siege weaponry and techniques in the chronicle of Henry of Livonia -- The significance of the local Baltic peoples in the defence of Livonia (late thirteenth-sixteenth centuries) -- The eastern Baltic lands in the age of the Crusades : a select bibliography of publications in English
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:075466483X