The clash of cultures on the medieval Baltic frontier. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alan V. Murray ; editorial assistants, Anne Huijbers and Elizabeth Wawrzyniak.
• Other Names: Murray, Alan V
• Contents: A new world into old words : the eastern Baltic region and the cultural geography of medieval Europe -- The Baltic Crusades : a clash of two identities -- The emergence of Livonia : on the transformations of the social and political structures in the territory of Latvia during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Sweden's conquest of Finland : a clash of cultures? -- Pope Honorius III and mission and crusade in the Baltic region -- Violent victims? : surprising aspects of the just war theory in the chronicle of Peter von Dusburg -- Sacralization of the landscape : converting trees and measuring land in the Danish Crusades against the Wends -- How to convert a landscape : Henry of Livonia and the Chronicon Livoniae -- Rural society and religious innovation : acceptance and rejection of Catholicism among the native inhabitants of medieval Livonia -- Saints' cults in medieval Livonia -- Sterile monsters : Russians and the Orthodox Church in the chronicle of Henry of Livonia -- Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod, the Fortress of Orekhov, and the defence of Orthodoxy -- Orthodox churches in medieval Livonia -- Music and cultural conflict in the Christianization of Livonia, 1190-1290 -- Crossbows or catapults? : the identification of siege weaponry and techniques in the chronicle of Henry of Livonia -- The significance of the local Baltic peoples in the defence of Livonia (late thirteenth-sixteenth centuries) -- The eastern Baltic lands in the age of the Crusades : a select bibliography of publications in English.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (394 pages)
• Subjects: 274.7905; 909.09633401; Crusades; Culture conflict -- Baltic States -- History -- To 1500; Baltic States -- Church history; Baltic States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500; Europe, Western -- Relations -- Baltic States; Baltic States -- Relations -- Europe, Western; Europe -- Territorial expansion; Baltic States -- Historiography; Livonia -- History; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351892605; 1351892606
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.