Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64189-454-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: War and Conflict in Premodern Societies

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and international scholarship, the book discusses the paganism of the landscape in written sources pre-dating the crusades, in addition to the narrative, legal, and visual evidence of the crusade period. It draws out the key sacralizing elements as expressed in those sources, which structure the definition of sacred landscape, particularly martyrdom, the manifestation of the sacred, and use of relics in battle. By analyzing these aspects with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), a map of the Baltic campaigns emerges that provides a fresh approach to studying contemporary views of holy war in a region with no initial links to the loca sancta of Jerusalem or Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leighton, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: Landscape Imagery in the Texts Documenting the Baltic Crusades  

Chapter 2: Literary Themes and Landscape Sacralization in the Written Evidence for the Baltic Crusades  

Chapter 3: Mapping Landscape Sacralization during the Baltic Crusades, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century  

Chapter 4: Relics, Processions, and Sacred Landscape in the Baltic, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century   

Chapter 5: Space, Visual Culture, and Landscape Sacralization in the Baltic  

Conclusion  

Concordance of Places 

Appendix: Relics in the Baltic Region (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)  

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Leighton, Gregory
Gregory Leighton earned his PhD in History (2018) from Cardiff University, where he studied the Teutonic Order and crusading in Prussia and Livonia. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun.