Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier
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Anders Sunesen
arbusow
Baltic Christianisation
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Celestine III
chronica
Chronica Slavorum
Chronicon Livoniae
Counterweight Trebuchet
Crossbow Bolts
diplomatic practices medieval
enn
Enn Tarvel
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frontier colonisation studies
Heinrich Von Lettland
henry
Henry's Chronicle
Henry's Narrative
Henry's Text
henrys
Henry’s Chronicle
Henry’s Narrative
Henry’s Text
Honorius III
Innocent Iii
leonid
Leonid Arbusow
livonia
Livonian Chronicle
Livonian Church
Livonian Crusades
Livonian Mission
Livonian Rhymed Chronicle
Ludus Magnus
medieval missionary activity
Pope Alexander III
Pope Innocent Iii
reception history chronicles
religious conversion Europe
Rigan Church
slavorum
sword
Sword Brethren
Teutonic Order
thirteenth century Livonia research
Product details
- ISBN 9780754666271
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century crusading ideology in practice. Step by step, it has become one of the most widely read and acknowledged frontier crusading and missionary chronicles. Henry's chronicle offers many opportunities to test and broaden the new approaches and key concepts brought along by recent developments in medieval studies, including the new pluralist definition of crusading and the relationship between the peripheries and core areas of Europe. While recent years have produced a significant amount of new research into Henry of Livonia, much of it has been limited to particular historical traditions and languages. A key objective of this book, therefore, is to synthesise the current state of research for the international scholarly audience. The volume provides a multi-sided and multi-disciplinary companion to the chronicle, and is divided into three parts. The first part, 'Representations,' brings into focus the imaginary sphere of the chronicle - the various images brought into existence by the amalgamation of crusading and missionary ideology and the frontier experience. This is followed by studies on 'Practices,' which examines the chronicle's reflections of the diplomatic, religious, and military practices of the christianisation and colonisation processes in medieval Livonia. The volume concludes with a section on the 'Appropriations,' which maps the reception history of the chronicle: the dynamics of the medieval, early modern and modern national uses and abuses of the text.
Marek Tamm, Tallinn University, Estonia, Linda Kaljundi, Tallinn University, Estonia, and Carsten Selch Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
