The house of hemp and butter
| Titel: | The house of hemp and butter : a history of Old Riga / Kevin C. O'Connor |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Ithaca; London : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019 |
| Umfang: | xv, 325 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies |
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| Andere Ausgaben: |
Online version: O'Connor, Kevin, 1967-. House of hemp and butter. - Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.
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| ISBN: | 9781501747687 ; 1501747681 ; 9781501747694 ; 9781501747700 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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| Bemerkung: |
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 301-310
Genesis : Riga before Riga -- Watering the nations : Riga and the northern crusades -- Free air in the Hanse city -- Master of Riga : the archbishop, the order, and the Rath -- Old knights and New teachings : the Reformation in Riga -- Upheavals : the Livonian War and the Polish interlude -- Star city : the Swedish century -- "This accursed place" : the Great Northern War |
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| Rezension/en: | --Oou--Bartlett, Roger [Tnd]. [Kevin C. O’Connor: The House of Hemp and Butter], 2020 |
| Zusammenfassung: |
"Riga was an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state. Beginning in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands, the book follows the evolution of the city to 1710 with an account of a war that was accompanied by mass starvation, epidemic, and a flood that devastated the city |
