Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries : : From the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries / / Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016
• TeilnehmendeR: Hermanson, Lars,; Jezierski, Wojtek,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 3 halftones, 2 line drawings

Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra incognita-but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place those people lived-it was also an imagined space through which they defined themselves and their iden...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Editors' Preface / Jezierski, Wojtek / Hermanson, Lars
• Introduction. Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries / Jezierski, Wojtek
• Visions of Community
• Imagining the Baltic. Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries / Foerster, Thomas
• Discourses of Communion. Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century / Hermanson, Lars
• Envisioning a Political Community. Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late Fifteenth Century / Nordquist, Margaretha
• 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 / Pac, Grzegorz
• Risk Societies on the Frontier. Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries / Jezierski, Wojtek
• Expanding Communities. Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early Thirteenth Century / Kaljundi, Linda
• An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community. St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth - Fifteenth Centuries / Heikkilä, Tuomas
• Legal and Urban Communities
• The Making of Legal Communities. Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth - Fourteenth Centuries / Lindkvist, Thomas
• Urban Community and Consensus. Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod / Lukin, Pavel V.
• Urban Community and Social Unrest. Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck / Heß, Cordelia
• The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar
• Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod. Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth - Early Fourteenth Centuries / Bandlien, Bjørn
• Transient Borders. The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the Mid- Fifteenth Century / Orning, Hans Jacob
• Afterword. Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities / Rosenwein, Barbara H.
• List of Abbreviations
• General Index