Lübeck Style? Novgorod Style? Baltic Rim Central Places as Arenas for Cultural Encounters and Urbanisation, 1100–1400 AD

360 Pages·2001·49.621 MB·English, German

by  Muntis Auns

GOTLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: REPORTS
Centre for Baltic Studies
CCC papers: 5

LÜBECK STYLE?
NOVGOROD STYLE?
Baltic Rim Central Places as Arenas for Cultural
Encounters and Urbanisation 1100 - 1400 AD
Transactions of the central level symposium of
the Culture Clash or Compromise (CCC) project
held in Talsi September 18-21 1998.
Gotland University College
Centre for Baltic Studies
Visby
nordik
Riga 2001
UDK 902 (063)
Li 022
Editor: Muntis Auns
The project Culture Clash or Compromise is financed
by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
The costs of editing and publishing CCC papers: 5 have been defrayed
by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
The papers have been linguistically revised by Valdis Berzins (English),
Detlef Kattinger and Jörn Staecker (German)
Layout: Velta Vilcane
Design: Tomass Folks
Front cover: A ship carving on the Rakstupīte rock face in Latvia.
This ship carving on a sandstone rock in Latvia is thought to date back to the
12th-14th century. Long-distance trade, harbours and Christianity - these are
some associations that develop when looking at the image of the ship.
Coincidentally, one can even picture a town plan and a church within the lines
of the sail. (See the article in this volume by J. Urtāns '‘Representation of
a Medieval Ship on a Sandstone Rock Face along the River Rakstupīte in
Latvia.”)
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© Layout, design - Nordik, 2001.
ISSN 1404-0573, 1404-26
ISBN 9984—675-37-8
Printed: Corp. “Preses nams” printing group “Jana seta”.
Contents
From Settlement to Town
11 Nils Blomkvist The Concept of the Town and the Dawn of Urban Life East and
West of the Baltic. On the Emergence of Centres, Turn-Over
Places, Towns and Cities
37 Detlef Kattinger Stadtentstehung und -entwicklung in Schweden und Livland am
Beispiel der Kalmarsundregion, Gotlands sowie des Bistums
Ösel-Wiek 1100-1400
69 Jānis Asaris Talsi - from Curonian Central Place to Medieval Town
77 Romas Jarockis Geographical Situation, Chronological Development and Early
Economy. A Comparative Analysis of Two Hillfort-Settlement
Complexes in Semigallia 900-1400 AD
89 Arnis Radiņš Daugmale, Jersika, Riga. The development of Economic and
Political Centres along the Lower Reaches of the Daugava
Harbours
97 Anton Päm Die Rolle der Wasserstraße bei der Ortswahl der Stadt Haapsalu
(Hapsal)
109 Tryggve Siltberg Country Harbours on Gotland and Harbour Statutes
(hamnordningar) in Sweden, Denmark and on Gotland
155 Juris Urtāns Representation of a Medieval Ship on a Sandstone Rock Face
along the River Rakstuplte in Latvia
167 Vladas Žulkus, Die Flüsse als Straßen der Europäisierung, Fluss und Hafen
Maik-Jens Šventoji - Heiligen Aa
Springmann
Churches and Cult Sites
187 Jörn Staecker In atrio ecclesiae. Die Bestattungssitte der dörflichen und
städtischen Friedhöfe im Norden.
259 Juris Urtäns Central Places in Semigallia and their Cult Sites
269 Jes Wienberg Churches and Centrality: Basilicas and Hall-Churches in
Medieval Scandinavia and Livonia
The Power of the Central Place
307 Muntis Auns Districts, Administrative Centres or Villages? Places in North
Curonia Mentioned in 13th Century Agreements
315 Marika Mägi Landed Estates on Saaremaa 1100-1400 as Recorded in a
Study of the Parish of Pöide
329 Alvydas Nikžentaitis Zur Frage der Fürstenschicht in der baltischen Gesellschaft
des 13. Jahrhunderts
337 Andris Šnē Hillforts of the Late Prehistoric Livs: Evidence for Chiefdom?
345 Vladas Zulkus Central Places of the Curonian and Prussian Tribes during the
Years of Cultural Change (1200-1400)