Imagined communities on the Baltic Rim : from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries / edited by Wojtek Jezierski and Lars Hermanson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979- editor.

Hermanson, Lars, 1967- editor.

Series:

Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baltic Coast--History.

Baltic Coast.

Baltic Sea--History.

Baltic Sea.

Europe--Baltic Coast.

Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]

Summary:

During the high and late Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was gradually transformed from a terra incognita into a region populated by communities of varying size. The Baltic littoral was not only a place for habitation and cultural expansion of these communities, it also constituted their mental horizon and an imagined space. Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries studies this transformation by focusing on self-image of a number of communities: urban, regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political. The contributions explore the way these communities defined themselves vis-à-vis the others, how they constructed their identities and customs, what affections connected them, what held them together or tore them apart. The book also gives an outsider - Icelandic and Norwegian - view of the Baltic Rim as the great Other in the East. Gathering scholars from all around the Baltic Sea working with a broad range of source materials, the book offers a pluralistic view on the forms and visions of medieval communities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Visions of Community

Imagining the Baltic: Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries / Thomas Foerster Foerster, Thomas 37

Discourses of Communion: Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century / Lars Hermanson Hermanson, Lars 59

Envisioning a Political Community: Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late Fifteenth Century / Margaretha Nordquist Nordquist, Margaretha 89

Cultic and Missionary Communities

Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries: Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central Europe, Eleventh - Twelfth Centuries / Grzegarz Pac Pac, Grzegarz 123

Risk Societies on the Frontier: Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries / Wojtek Jezierski Jezierski, Wojtek 155

Expanding Communities: Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early Thirteenth Century / Linda Kaljundi Kaljundi, Linda 191

An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community: St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth - Fifteenth Centuries / Tuomas Heikkila Heikkila, Tuomas 223

Legal and Urban Communities

The Making of Legal Communities: Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth - Fourteenth Centuries / Thomas Lindkvist Lindkvist, Thomas 255

Urban Community and Consensus: Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod / Pavel V. Lukin Lukin, Pavel V. 279

Urban Community and Social Unrest: Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck / Cordelia Heβ Heβ, Cordelia 307

The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar

Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod: Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth - Early Fourteenth Centuries / Bjørn Bandlien Bandlien, Bjørn 331

Transient Borders: The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the Mid-Fifteenth Century / Hans Jacob Orning Orning, Hans Jacob 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789089649836

9089649832

OCLC:

944087307

Publisher Number:

99969737134