Making Livonia : actors and networks in the medieval and early modern Baltic Sea region / edited by Anu Mänd and Marek Tamm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mänd, Anu, editor.

Tamm, Marek, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Livonia--History.

Livonia.

Europe--Livonia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisation and colonisation on the north-east shore of the Baltic Sea in the late twelfth and the early thirteenth century. These radical changes have received increasing scholarly notice over the last few decades. However, less attention has been devoted to the interplay between the new and the old structures and actors in a longer perspective. This volume aims to study these interplays and explores the history of Livonia by concentrating on various actors and networks from the late twelfth to the seventeenth century. But on a deeper level the goal is more ambitious: to investigate the foundation of an increasingly complex and heterogeneous society on the medieval and early modern Baltic frontier - 'the making of Livonia'"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Early making of Livonia (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries) p. 15

1 Mission and mobility: The travels and networking of Bishop Albert of Riga (c. 1165-1229) p. 17 / Marek Tamm

2 Political centres or nodal points in trade networks?: Estonian hillforts before and after the thirteenth-century conquest p. 48 / Marika Mägi

3 Visual performances of power in the period of the Danish crusades p. 70 / Kersti Markus

4 Neophytes as actors in the Livonian crusades p. 93 / Linda Kaljundi

5 Politics of emotions and empathy walls in thirteenth-century Livonia p. 113 / Wojtek Jezierski

6 Donating land to the church: Topos as a legal argument in thirteenth-century Livonia p. 143 / Anti Selart

7 Mobility of the Livonian Teutonic Knights p. 158 / Juhan Kreem

8 Manuscript fragments as testimony of intellectual contacts between Tallinn and European learning centres in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries p. 170 / Tiina Kala

Part II Late making of Livonia (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries) p. 187

9 City scribes and the management of information: The professionalisation of a transgenerational agency and its agents in Tallinn (c. 1250-1558) p. 189 / Tapio Salminen

10 Cistercian networks of memory: Commemoration as a form of institutional bonding in Livonia and beyond during the late Middle Ages p. 212 / Gustavs Strenga

11 The 'Hanseatic' trade of the Finnish Skalm family in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries p. 232 / Ilkka Leskelä

12 Merchants as political, social and cultural actors: Tallinn burgomaster Hans Viant (d. 1524) p. 251 / Anu Mänd

13 Mintmasters as the nodes of the social and monetary network: The life and career of Paul Gulden (c. 1530-93) p. 279 / Ivar Leimus

14 Self-representation and social aesthetics: Wealthy Tallinn burgher homes in the early modern period p. 300 / Krista Kodres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Making livonia

ISBN:

9780367481285

9780367273095

0367273098

0367481286

OCLC:

1140351881

Publisher Number:

99985286026