The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier
| Titel: | The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier / ed. by Alan V. Murray |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Farnham : Ashgate, 2009 |
| Umfang: | XX, 369 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780754664833 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Introduction
- Part I
- Culture and Identity
- A new world into old words: the Eastern Baltic region and the cultural geography of medieval Europe
- The Baltic crusades: a clash of 2 identities
- The emergence of Livonia: the transformations of the social and political structures in the territory of Latvia during the 12th and 13th centuries
- Sweden's conquest of Finland: a clash of cultures?
- Part II
- Crusade and Mission
- Pope Honorius III and mission and crusades in the Baltic region
- Violent victims? Surprising aspects of the just war theory in the Chronicle of Peter von Dusburg
- Part III
- Converting Landscapes, Converting Peoples
- 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
- Part IV
- Catholicism and Orthodoxy
- 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
- Part V
- Warfare on the Baltic Frontier
- 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 13th-16th centuries)
- The Eastern Baltic lands in the age of the Crusades: a select bibliography of publications in English
- Index
