Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries (Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies, #4)

Wojtek Jezierski (Editor), Lars Hermanson (Editor), DR. Wojtek Jezierski (Editor), PROF. Lars Hermanson (Editor), Thomas Foerster, Margaretha Nordquist, Grzegorz Pac, Linda Kaljundi, Tuomas Heikkila, Thomas Lindkvist, Pavel Lukin, and Cordelia Hess

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Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra incognita-but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place those people lived-it was also an imagined space through which they defined themselves and their identities. This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political. Contributors look at the ways these communities defined themselves in relationship to other groups, how they constructed their identities and customs, and what held them together or tore them apart.
  • ISBN13 9789089649836
  • Publish Date 23 August 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Amsterdam University Press