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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.
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.
This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the
Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult
of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia,
and Latvia (Livonia). Essays explore such topics as the
introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the
creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized
regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of
political and lay identities, and the potential role of saints in
times of war.
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