Transactions of the central level symposium of the Culture Clash or Compromise (CCC) project held in Talsi September 18-21 1998.
The present book belongs to a series of publications presented by the international research project "Culture Clash or Compromise?" (or just CCC), which has its base at Gotland University College and is financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The project investigates various aspects of the process of Europeanisation on the Baltic Rim, AD 1100-1400. The book contains the transactions of a project meeting held in Talsi, Latvia, from September 18th to 21st 1998, which was kindly hosted by the Talsi Museum.
The main attention during the meeting was given to the problem of urbanisation - the emergence and development of towns and cities, their connection with trade (trade routes) and power. The title of the book "Lübeck Style? Novgorod Style?" is chiefly a metaphor for the Baltic Sea as an arena for encounters between East and West, and for the various influences that were pooling together in the medieval urbanisation processes of Scandinavia and the East Baltic countries.
Author(s): Muntis Auns
Series: Gotland University College: Reports. Centre for Baltic Studies. CCC Papers, 5
Publisher: Nordik
Year: 2001
Language: English, German
Pages: 354
City: Riga
From Settlement to Town
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 11
Detlef Kattinger / Stadtentstehung und -entwicklung in Schweden und Livland am Beispiel der Kalmarsundregion, Gotlands sowie des Bistums Ösel-Wiek 1100-1400 37
Jānis Asaris / Talsi - from Curonian Central Place to Medieval Town 69
Romas Jarockis / Geographical Situation, Chronological Development and Early Economy. A Comparative Analysis of Two Hillfort-Settlement Complexes in Semigallia 900-1400 AD 77
Arnis Radiņš / Daugmale, Jersika, Riga. The Development of Economic and Political Centres along the Lower Reaches of the Daugava Harbours 89
Anton Pärn / Die Rolle der Wasserstraße bei der Ortswahl der Stadt Haapsalu (Hapsal) 97
Tryggve Siltberg / Country Harbours on Gotland and Harbour Statutes (hamnordningar) in Sweden, Denmark and on Gotland 109
Juris Urtāns / Representation of a Medieval Ship on a Sandstone Rock Face along the River Rakstupite in Latvia 155
Vladas Žulkus & Maik-Jens Springmann / Die Flüsse als Straßen der Europäisierung, Fluss und Hafen Šventoji - Heiligen Aa 167
Churches and Cult Sites
Jörn Staecker / In atrio ecclesiae. Die Bestattungssitte der dörflichen und städtischen Friedhöfe im Norden 187
Juris Urtāns / Central Places in Semigallia and their Cult Sites 259
Jes Wienberg / Churches and Centrality: Basilicas and Hall-Churches in Medieval Scandinavia and Livonia 269
The Power of the Central Place
Muntis Auns / Districts, Administrative Centres or Villages? Places in North Curonia Mentioned in 13th Century Agreements 307
Marika Mägi / Landed Estates on Saaremaa 1100-1400 as Recorded in a Study of the Parish of Pöide 315
Alvydas Nikžentaitis / Zur Frage der Fürstenschicht in der baltischen Gesellschaft des 13. Jahrhunderts 329
Andris Šnē / Hillforts of the Late Prehistoric Livs: Evidence for Chiefdom? 337
Vladas Žulkus / Central Places of the Curonian and Prussian Tribes during the Years of Cultural Change (1200-1400) 345
