First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing.
This volume represents a major contribution to the history of the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages, from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. The subjects treated range from discussions of the ideology and practice of crusade and conversion, through studies of the motivation of the crusading countries (Denmark, Sweden and Germany) and the effects of the crusades on the countries of the eastern Baltic coast (Finland, Estonia, Livonia, Prussia and Lithuania), to analyses of the literature and historiography of the crusade. It brings together essays from both established and younger scholars from the western tradition with those from the modern Baltic countries and Russia, and presents in English some of the fruits of the first decade of historical scholarship and dialogue after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. The depth of treatment, diversity of approaches, and accompanying bibliography of publications make this collection a major resource for the teaching of the Baltic Crusades.
Author(s): Alan V. Murray
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 326
List of Maps and Tables
Abbreviations
Preface
List of Contributors
A Note on Names
Introduction / Kurt Villads Jensen
Part I. Theory and Practice of the Baltic Crusade
1. The Incorporation of the Northern Baltic Lands into the Western Christian World / Tiina Kala
2. The Crusade of the Teutonic Knights against Lithuania Reconsidered / Axel Ehlers
3. The Frontier Thesis and the Baltic Crusade / William Urban
Part II. The Crusading Countries of Northern Europe
4. Urban Life and the Crusades in Northern Germany and the Baltic Lands in the Early Thirteenth Century / Carsten Selch Jensen
5. The Missionary Man: Archbishop Anders Sunesen and the Baltic Crusade, 1206-21 / Torben K. Nielsen
6. Crusades and Crusading Ideology in the Political History of Sweden, 1140-1500 / Thomas Lindkvist
Part III. The Target Countries
7. Consequences of the Baltic Crusades in Target Areas: The Case of Karelia / John H. Lind
8. Confessional Conflict and Political Co-operation: Livonia and Russia in the Thirteenth Century / Anti Selart
9 The Crusades against Votians and Izhorians in the Thirteenth Century / Evgeniya L. Nazarova
10. When Crusader and Pagan Agree: Conversion as a Point of Honour in the Baptism of King Mindaugas of Lithuania (c. 1240-63) / Rasa Mazeika
11. The Teutonic Order as a Secular Ruler in Livonia: The Privileges and Oath of Reval / Juhan Kreem
Part IV. Literature and Historiography of the Baltic Crusade
12. The Structure, Genre and Intended Audience of the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle / Alan V. Murray
13. Mental Frontiers: Prussians as Seen by Peter von Dusburg / Vera I. Matuzova
14. Biblical Heroes and the Uses of Literature: The Teutonic Order in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries / Mary Fischer
Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150-1500: A Bibliography of Publications in English / Compiled by Alan V. Murray
Chronology
Placename Equivalents
Index
