The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier
By: Alan V. Murray.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754664833
Subjects: Catholic Church -- History; Crusades; Culture conflict -- Baltic States -- History -- To 1500; Baltic States -- Church history; Baltic States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500; Europe, Western -- Relations -- Baltic States; Baltic States -- Relations -- Europe, Western; Europe -- Territorial expansion; Baltic States -- Historiography; Livonia -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new world into old words : the eastern Baltic region and the cultural geography of medieval Europe; title: The Baltic Crusades : a clash of two identities; title: The emergence of Livonia : on the transformations of the social and political structures in the territory of Latvia during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; title: Sweden's conquest of Finland : a clash of cultures?; title: Pope Honorius III and mission and crusade in the Baltic region; title: Violent victims? : surprising aspects of the just war theory in the chronicle of Peter von Dusburg; title: Sacralization of the landscape : converting trees and measuring land in the Danish Crusades against the Wends; title: How to convert a landscape : Henry of Livonia and the Chronicon Livoniae; title: Rural society and religious innovation : acceptance and rejection of Catholicism among the native inhabitants of medieval Livonia; title: Saints' cults in medieval Livonia; title: Sterile monsters : Russians and the Orthodox Church in the chronicle of Henry of Livonia; title: Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod, the Fortress of Orekhov, and the defence of Orthodoxy; title: Orthodox churches in medieval Livonia; title: Music and cultural conflict in the Christianization of Livonia, 1190-1290; title: Crossbows or catapults? : the identification of siege weaponry and techniques in the chronicle of Henry of Livonia; title: The significance of the local Baltic peoples in the defence of Livonia (late thirteenth-sixteenth centuries); title: The eastern Baltic lands in the age of the Crusades : a select bibliography of publications in English; title: Modern equivalents of names of places and regions.