Download PDF | (The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 93) Anti Selart (ed.) - Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia, 1200-1350-Brill 2022.
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Preface
This book is a result of the University of Tartu research project ‘Coexistence, isolation, and cultural interchange in medieval Livonia (1200–1550)’ funded by the Estonian Research Council (project no put 1422, 2017–2020). The project aimed for an updated, modern view on the coexistence of different ethnic and social groups and their interaction in Estonia and Latvia in the Middle Ages. The focal point was the mutual cultural impact and acculturation of groups of different ethnic origin, social status, and migrational background in this region. The earlier historiography often tended to describe Livonian medieval social and cultural conflicts as national (or ethnic) ones and to stress the isolationism of the groups.
The results presented here seek out places of mutual adaption between natives and newcomers, and ask for the immediate economic and societal results of the Baltic Crusades: what processes can really be considered as results of the conquest, and what just happened during and after the crusading period? Additional support for publishing this book was provided by another University of Tartu research project ‘Global Livonia: Rethinking medieval territories’ (no. prg 1132) funded by the Estonian Research Council. Medieval Livonia was a region of many languages and several toponymic traditions. In this volume, dominantly the native-language place-names in their modern standard form are preferred, except the cases when an established English version exists. The index simultaneously serves as multi-lingual place-name concordance.
The volume would not have been produced without serious help of many people. Aside from the contributors, I would thank numerous colleagues from Estonia and abroad for their advice and support. Dirk Lloyd and Dr Siobhan Kattago improved the English. Kristel Roog drew the maps, and Dr Anu Mänd helped to find the illustrations. Last but not least, Dr Ivar Leimus delivered the cover illustrations and helped to write the explanatory text
Notes on Contributors
Arvi Haak is archaeologist, who currently works as a research fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His main field of research is medieval urban archaeology, focusing on town formation process in southern Estonia, as well as archaeological finds, especially ceramics and glass vessels.
Tõnno Jonuks (PhD 2009) is a research fellow at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu. His main interests concern materiality of religion generally and the formation of Estonian religion, in particular. Jonuks has studied objects and religious contexts in various periods, ranging from the Mesolithic to the contemporary period.
Kristjan Kaljusaar is a doctoral student at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His main field of study comprises topics surrounding the development of vassalage structures, fiefs and power networks during the period of holy wars and Christianisation in the Eastern Baltic region. Kaljusaar has also written about crusading practices, hostageship, and presentations of militant martyrdom.
Ivar Leimus (PhD 1989) graduated from the University of Tartu in 1976, and since then he has worked as the keeper of coins at the Estonian History Museum, Tallinn. He has numerous publications on numismatics and the economic history of medieval and early modern Livonia.
Christian Lübke (PhD 1980) is a historian of Eastern Europe. His research is mainly based on the Middle Ages and the history of East Central Europe. One focus of his work lies in the German-Slavic relations up to the Rus’. After the first stages of his scholarly career in Gießen and Berlin, he was professor of Eastern European history at the University of Greifswald for ten years. Since 2007, he has been director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig and professor for the history of East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig, as well as a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
Madis Maasing (PhD 2016) is a research fellow at the Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Estonia. His main research interests include connections between Livonia and the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century; political consequences of the Reformation in Livonia; political rhetoric and argumentation; and the functioning and role of Livonian ecclesiastic structures, especially cathedral chapters.
Mihkel Mäesalu (PhD 2017) is a research fellow of medieval history at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has written a monograph on the relations between Livonia and the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, and several papers on the Livonian Crusade, the Teutonic Order in Livonia, and the Livonian bishoprics. He is currently studying Danish-Livonian relations during the Middle Ages.
Anti Selart (PhD 2002) is professor of medieval history at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His primary research fields are the history of medieval Livonia and the Baltic Sea region, including the Northern Crusades and topics related to ecclesiastical history and interconfessional relations in medieval and sixteenth-century East Central Europe.
Vija Stikāne (PhD 2012) is research director at the Turaida Museum Reserve, Latvia. She received her PhD from University of Latvia with the doctoral thesis ‘Women in Medieval and Early Modern Livonia from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries’.
Andres Tvauri (PhD 2001) is associate professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His main research areas include Late Iron Age, medieval, and early modern archaeology, with a specific interest in material culture and archaeology of production sites in the Baltic area.
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