Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Editors’ Preface 9
4. Introduction. Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries 11
5. Visions of Community
6. Imagining the Baltic. Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries 37
7. Discourses of Communion. Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century 59
8. Envisioning a Political Community. Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late Fifteenth Century 89
9. Cultic and Missionary Communities
10. Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries. Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central Europe, Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries 123
11. Risk Societies on the Frontier. Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries 155
12. Expanding Communities. Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early Thirteenth Century 191
13. An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community. St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth – Fifteenth Centuries 223
14. Legal and Urban Communities
15. The Making of Legal Communities. Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth – Fourteenth Centuries 255
16. Urban Community and Consensus. Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod 279
17. Urban Community and Social Unrest. Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck 307
18. The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar
19. Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod. Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth – Early Fourteenth Centuries 331
20. Transient Borders. The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the Mid- Fifteenth Century 353
21. Afterword. Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities 379
22. List of Abbreviations 387
23. General Index 389