Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: From the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

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Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

From the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

About this book

This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political.

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Jezierski Wojtek :

Wojtek Jezierski works as a postdoc in medieval history at the Department of Historical Studies, Gothenburg University. He holds an MA in history from Warsaw University (2003) where he also studied social anthropology.Hermanson Lars :

Lars Hermanson is a professor at the Department of Historical Studies at Gothenburg University.

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History Regional and National History Europe General European History

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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Editors’ Preface
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Wojtek Jezierski and Lars Hermanson

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Introduction. Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
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Wojtek Jezierski

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Visions of Community
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Imagining the Baltic. Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries
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Thomas Foerster

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

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

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Cultic and Missionary Communities
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Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries. Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central Europe, Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries
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Grzegorz Pac

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Risk Societies on the Frontier. Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries
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Wojtek Jezierski

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

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An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community. St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth – Fifteenth Centuries
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Tuomas Heikkilä

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Legal and Urban Communities
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The Making of Legal Communities. Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth – Fourteenth Centuries
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Thomas Lindkvist

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Urban Community and Consensus. Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod
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Pavel V. Lukin

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Urban Community and Social Unrest. Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck
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Cordelia Heß

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The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar
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Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod. Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth – Early Fourteenth Centuries
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Bjørn Bandlien

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

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Afterword. Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities
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Barbara H. Rosenwein

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List of Abbreviations
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General Index
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Keywords for this book

imagined communities; Baltic Rim; identity formation; medieval communities; emotional communities

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Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Editors’ Preface

Introduction. Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

Imagining the Baltic. Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries

Discourses of Communion. Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century

Envisioning a Political Community. Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late Fifteenth Century

Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries. Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central Europe, Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries

Risk Societies on the Frontier. Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries

Expanding Communities. Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early Thirteenth Century

An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community. St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth – Fifteenth Centuries

The Making of Legal Communities. Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth – Fourteenth Centuries

Urban Community and Consensus. Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod

Urban Community and Social Unrest. Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck

Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod. Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth – Early Fourteenth Centuries

Transient Borders. The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the Mid- Fifteenth Century

Afterword. Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities

List of Abbreviations

General Index

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