Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

396 Pages·2016·3.315 MB·English

by  Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson (eds.)

Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim,
from the Eleventh toFifteenthCenturies
Crossing Boundaries
Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The series from the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(TUCEMEMS) publishes monographs and collective volumes placed at the
intersection of disciplinary boundaries, introducing fresh connections between
established fields of study. The series especially welcomes research combining
or juxtaposing different kinds of primary sources and new methodological
solutions to deal with problems presented by them. Encouraged themes and
approaches include, but are not limited to, identity formation in medieval/early
modern communities, and the analysis of texts and other cultural products as a
communicative process comprising shared symbols and meanings.
Series Editor
Matti Peikola, University of Turku, Finland
Imagined Communities on the
Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh
to Fifteenth Centuries
Edited by
Wojtek Jezierski and Lars Hermanson
Amsterdam University Press
Cover illustration: St. Henry and St. Eric arriving to Finland on the ‘First Finnish Crusade’.
Fragment of the fifteenth-centtury sarcophagus of St. Henry in the church of Nousiainen,
Finland
Photograph: Kirsi Salonen
Cover design: Coördesign, Leiden
Lay-out: Crius Group, Hulshout
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e-isbn 978 90 4852 899 8 (pdf)
doi 10.5117/9789089649836
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Table of Contents
Editors’ Preface 9
Introduction 11
Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to
Fifteenth Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski*
Visions of Community
Imagining the Baltic 37
Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo
Grammaticus, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries
Thomas Foerster*
Discourses of Communion 59
Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the
Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century
Lars Hermanson*
Envisioning a Political Community 89
Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late
Fifteenth Century
Margaretha Nordquist*
Cultic and Missionary Communities
Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries 123
Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central
Europe, Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries
Grzegorz Pac*
Risk Societies on the Frontier 155
Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh
– Thirteenth Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski*
Expanding Communities 191
Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early
Thirteenth Century
Linda Kaljundi*
An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community 223
St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland,
Thirteenth – Fifteenth Centuries
Tuomas Heikkilä*
Legal and Urban Communities
The Making of Legal Communities 255
Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland,
Thirteenth – Fourteenth Centuries
Thomas Lindkvist*
Urban Community and Consensus 279
Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod
Pavel V. Lukin*
Urban Community and Social Unrest 307
Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck
Cordelia Heß*
The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar
Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod 331
Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth – Early
Fourteenth Centuries
Bjørn Bandlien*
Transient Borders 353
The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the Mid-Fifteenth
Century
Hans Jacob Orning*
Afterword 379
Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities
Barbara H. Rosenwein*
List of Abbreviations 387
General Index 389
List of Figures
Figure 1 Place-names mentioned in the book 8
Figure 2 Marriages of children of Bolesław the Wrymouth and
his son, Mieszko III, with members of Scandinavian and
Pomeranian ruling houses 126
Figure 3 Familial relations of Inge the Elder and Helena’s daughters 129
Figure 4 Emotion Words in the Chronicon Livoniae 174
Figure 5 Law code provinces in Sweden, fourteenth century 254
Figure 1 Place-names mentioned in the book