ABSTRACT
One of the results of the conquest and conversion of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea in the thirteenth century was the need to integrate the conquered lands into European cultural geography and translate this new information into Latin learned discourse.1 Borrowing the terminology of today’s geographers we could define this need more abstractly as a task to appropriate the new space and transform it into territory. By ‘territory’, I mean a space domesticated by a community through the execution of power, in opposition to ‘space’ as something vague and indefinable.2 ‘Power territorializes’, Kathy Lavezzo has recently written: ‘it permeates, controls, and fashions space’.3
