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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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Farnham [u.a.]
Ashgate
2009
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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 |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 075466483X |