Saints And Sainthood Around The Baltic Sea
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| Author | : Carsten Selch Jensen |
| Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2018-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1580443249 |
This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (Livonia). Essays explore such topics as the introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, and the potential role of saints in times of war.
| Author | : Carsten S. Jensen |
| Publisher | : Lund Humphries Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2015-01-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781472409508 |
During the Middle Ages the regions around the Baltic Sea became drawn into the sphere of an expanding Christian culture. The lands and regions subjected to these processes of Christianisation and colonisation had to redefine their past as well as their present in the light of a new religious, cultural and mental framework. Thus, in historical terms, they would redefine both the past and the present through oral and literary processes.
| Author | : Kersti Markus |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2020-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004426175 |
Focusing on visual sources and the cultural landscape, Kersti Markus offers a fresh perspective on the Baltic crusades in Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250. The book examines how visual propaganda was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy in the Baltic Sea region. In recent decades, Danish historians have highlighted the central role of the Valdemar dynasty and the bishops supporting them in the Baltic crusades, but visual sources show how the entire society was mentally prepared for a journey with redemption waiting at the end. A New Jerusalem was being built in Scandinavia, and the crusade to Livonia was conducted under the banner of Christ. See inside the book.
| Author | : Cordelia Heß, Gustavs Strenga |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2023-11-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 311135122X |
| Author | : Anu Mänd |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2018-07-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1527515710 |
This volume examines the relationship between medieval cults of saints and regional and national identity formation in Europe both during and, to some extent, beyond the Middle Ages. It studies how collective identities have been expressed through saints’ cults and their appropriations in texts, visual representations, and music. Attention is given to various aspects of the role of medieval saints’ cults in European identity formation, as saints were used in the service of both religious and political agendas. Focusing on a range of European regions, this volume uses cults of medieval saints and their religious, cultural and political appropriations over time as a vehicle for studying changing cultural and social values. The articles here report research carried out under the European Science Foundation’s collaborative EuroCORECODE project: Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints’ Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities (2010–2013/14), an international, interdisciplinary research venture funded by the National Research Councils of five countries: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, and Norway.
| Author | : Jonas Nordin |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2023-07-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004441212 |
This book is about the creation, relocation, and reconstruction of libraries between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Confessionalization, that is, the era of religious division and struggle in Northern Europe following the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, different creeds clashed with each other, but it was also a period in which the political and intellectual geography of Europe was redrawn. Centuries-old political, economic, and cultural networks fell apart and were replaced with new ones. Books and libraries were at the centre of these cultural, political, and religious transformations, frequently seized as war booties and appropriated by their new owners in distant locations.
| Author | : Anu Mänd |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2020-06-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000076938 |
The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisation and colonisation on the north-east shore of the Baltic Sea in the late twelfth and the early thirteenth centuries. These radical changes have received increasing scholarly notice over the last few decades. However, less attention has been devoted to the interplay between the new and the old structures and actors in a longer perspective. This volume aims to study these interplays and explores the history of Livonia by concentrating on various actors and networks from the late twelfth to the seventeenth century. But, on a deeper level, the goal is more ambitious: to investigate the foundation of an increasingly complex and heterogeneous society on the medieval and early modern Baltic frontier – ‘the making of Livonia’.
| Author | : Alexandra Cuffel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2019-04-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1527533581 |
Tales of “saints”, whether told by their adherents or detractors, frequently featured the holy person’s dealings with members of other religions or cultures, or the stories themselves were appropriated by different religious or cultural groups. As such narratives moved from one social, cultural, religious or chronological milieu to another, the representation and meaning of the given holy person and the manner of his/her dealing with the religious other also often changed. As basic storylines remained recognizable, the transformations of specific details often provide important clues about shifts in attitudes over time and between communities. This volume provides a varied array of case studies of this process, ranging from early China to various Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultural contexts in the late antique, medieval and early modern periods.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2019-10-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004407677 |
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
| Author | : John Bergsagel |
| Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2015-12-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 8763542609 |
This volume collects the proceedings of a symposium on the manuscript Kiel, University Library S. H. 8 A. 80, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called “Roskilde Chronicle” as well as the complete monastic Offices and Masses of the Danish saint Knud Lavard. Thirteen scholars offer a variety of analyses of the manuscript, including studies of the crusades and crusaders in the liturgy, kingship and sanctity in the lives of British and Scandinavian saints, and the writing of patriotic history.
