The Discovery of the Baltic

The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-14122-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 774 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1497 g

Reihe: The Northern World

Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery.

The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia.

Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blomkvist, Nils

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ch. 1 What is Europe to the Baltic?: a survey of the main topic and its sub-problems 3
Ch. 2 The Catholic world-system: a theoretical approach to Europeanization 35
Ch. 3 Cultural encounters on the Baltic: contemporary descriptions of the experience of Europeanization 97
Ch. 4 Network versus territorial control: the political dimension of long 12th century 'change qualitative' 203
Ch. 5 The regional panorama: a brief introduction to chapters six-eight 279
Ch. 6 The discovery of Kalmarsund: the struggle for the gateway to the Baltic North 301
Ch. 7 The discovery of Gotland: the compromising society strategy and the emergence of international law in the Baltic 377
Ch. 8 The discovery of the lower Daugava: an anatomy of a clash 505
Ch. 9 The Catholic world-system and the making of Baltic Rim states: political and nationalistic reactions to the coming of Europe in Sweden and Livonia 567
Conclusions and comments in retrospect: the coming of the Catholic world-system and the Baltic Rim reaction 679

Über Autor(innen)

Nils Blomkvist, Ph.D. (1979) in History, Uppsala University, is Professor of Medieval History at Gotland University and leader of the multinational and interdisciplinary research project "Culture Clash or Compromise?" which involved some twenty scholars studying medieval Europeanization on the Baltic Rim.