The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

398 Pages·2016·3.286 MB·English

by  Alan V. Murray, Anne Huijbers, Elizabeth Wawrzyniak (eds.)

The Clash of CulTures on The
Medieval BalTiC fronTier

The Clash of Cultures on the
Medieval Baltic frontier
Edited by
alan v. Murray
University of Leeds, UK
Editorial assistants
anne huijBers and elizaBeTh WaWrzyniak
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier.
1. Culture conflict – Baltic Sea Region – History – To 1500. 2. Baltic Sea Region
– history. 3. Baltic sea region – Church history.
i. Murray, alan v.
909’.09633401–dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murray, alan v.
The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier / alan v. Murray.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–7546–6483–3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Baltic states – Church history. 2. Crusades. 3. Catholic Church – history.
4. Culture conflict – Baltic States – History – To 1500. 5. Baltic States – Ethnic
relations – history – To 1500. 6. europe, Western – relations – Baltic states.
7. Baltic states – relations – europe, Western. 8. europe – Territorial expansion.
9. Baltic states – historiography. 10. livonia – history.
i. Title.
Br937.B3M87 2009
274.79’05–dc22 2009005562
isBn 9780754664833 (hbk)
Contents
List of Maps and Figures ix
Contributors to the Volume xi
Acknowledgements xv
A Note on Names xvii
Modern Equivalents of Place-names and Regional Names xix
Abbreviations xxi
introduction 1
Alan V. Murray
Part I CuLture anD IDentIty
1 a new World into old Words: The eastern Baltic region and
the Cultural Geography of Medieval europe 11
Marek Tamm
2 The Baltic Crusades: a Clash of Two identities 37
Eva Eihmane
3 The emergence of livonia: The Transformations of social
and Political structures in the Territory of latvia during the
Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 53
Andris Šnē
4 sweden’s Conquest of finland: a Clash of Cultures? 73
Philip Line
Part II CrusaDe anD MIssIon
5 Pope honorius iii and Mission and Crusades in the Baltic
region 103
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt
6 violent victims? surprising aspects of the just War Theory
in the Chronicle of Peter von dusburg 123
Rasa Mažeika
vi Contents
Part III ConvertIng LanDsCaPes, ConvertIng PeoPLes
7 sacralization of the landscape: Converting Trees and
Measuring land in the danish Crusades against the Wends 141
Kurt Villads Jensen
8 how to Convert a landscape: henry of livonia and the
Chronicon Livoniae 151
Carsten Selch Jensen
9 rural society and religious innovation: acceptance and
rejection of Catholicism among the native inhabitants of
Medieval livonia 169
Tiina Kala
10 saints’ Cults in Medieval livonia 191
Anu Mänd
Part Iv CathoLICIsM anD orthoDoxy
11 sterile Monsters? russians and the orthodox Church in the
Chronicle of henry of livonia 227
Torben K. Nielsen
12 Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod, the Fortress of
Orekhov and the Defence of Orthodoxy 253
Michael C. Paul
13 orthodox Churches in Medieval livonia 273
Anti Selart
Part v Warfare on the BaLtIC frontIer
14 Music and Cultural Conflict in the Christianization of Livonia,
1190–1290 293
Alan V. Murray
15 Crossbows or Catapults? The Identification of Siege Weaponry
and Techniques in the Chronicle of henry of livonia 307
Stephen Turnbull
16 The Significance of the Local Baltic Peoples in the Defence
of Livonia (Late Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) 321
Kaspars Kļaviņš
Contents vii
The eastern Baltic lands in the age of the Crusades: a select
Bibliography of Publications in english 341
Compiled by Alan V. Murray
Index 357