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Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

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Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier book

A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

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Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier book

A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia
Edited ByMarek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, Carsten Selch Jensen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575186
Pages 522 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315575186
SubjectsHumanities
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Tamm, M. (Ed.), Kaljundi, L. (Ed.), Jensen, C. (Ed.). (2011). Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575186

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |20 pages

Introduction: Henry of Livonia, e Writer and His Chronicle

ByJames A. Brundage

part |2 pages

PART I Representations

chapter 1|22 pages

Henry of Livonia and the Ideology of Crusading

ByChristopher Tyerman

chapter 2|32 pages

Sacred History, Profane History: Uses of the Bible in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

chapter 3|30 pages

Henricus the Ethnographer: Reections on Ethnicity in the Chronicle of Livonia

chapter 4|28 pages

Henry the Interpreter: Language, Orality and Communication in the irteenth-century Livonian Mission

chapter 5|22 pages

Martyrs and Miracles: Depicting Death in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

chapter 6|22 pages

Henry of Livonia on Woods and Wilderness

ByTorben Kjersgaard Nielsen

chapter 7|28 pages

‘Verbis non verberibus’: e Representation of Sermons in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

part |2 pages

PART II Practices

chapter 8|20 pages

Riga and Rome: Henry of Livonia and the Papal Curia

ByIben Fonnesberg-Schmidt

chapter 9|16 pages

e Notion of a Missionary eatre: e ludus magnus of Henry of Livonia’s Chronicle

chapter 10|20 pages

Bigger and Better: Arms Race and Change in War Technology in the Baltic in the Early irteenth Century

chapter 11|26 pages

Mechanical Artillery and Warfare in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

chapter 12|26 pages

An Archaeological Reading of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia: Events, Traces, Contexts and Interpretations

chapter 13|26 pages

Ösel and the Danish Kingdom: Revisiting Henry’s Chronicle and the Archaeological Evidence

part |2 pages

PART III Appropriations

chapter 14|18 pages

The Use and Uselessness of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia in the Middle Ages

chapter 15|22 pages

e Chronicon Livoniae in Early Modern Scholarship: From Humanist Receptions to the Gruber Edition of 1740

chapter 16|24 pages

Henry’s Chronicle in the Service of Historical ought: Editors and Editions

chapter 17|48 pages

e Chronicler and the Modern World: Henry of Livonia and the Baltic Crusades in the Enlightenment and National Traditions

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