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Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power
centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they
together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost all
lands around the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. In the Middle
Ages, Scandinavia became part of a common Europe, yet preserved its
own distinct cultural markers. Scandinavia in the Middle Ages
900-1550 covers the entire Middle Ages into an engaging narrative.
The book gives a chronological overview of political,
ecclesiastical, cultural, and economic developments. It integrates
to this narrative climatic changes, energy crises, devastating
epidemies, family life and livelihood, arts, education, technology
and literature, and much else. The book shows how different groups
had an important role in shaping society: kings and peasants, pious
priests, nuns and crusaders, merchants, and students, without
forgetting minorities such as Sami and Jews. The book is divided
into three chronological parts 900-1200, 1200-1400, and 1400-1550,
where analyses of general trends are illustrated by the acts of
individual men and women. This book is essential reading for
students of, as well as all those interested in, medieval
Scandinavia and Europe more broadly.
Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power
centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they
together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost all
lands around the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. In the Middle
Ages, Scandinavia became part of a common Europe, yet preserved its
own distinct cultural markers. Scandinavia in the Middle Ages
900-1550 covers the entire Middle Ages into an engaging narrative.
The book gives a chronological overview of political,
ecclesiastical, cultural, and economic developments. It integrates
to this narrative climatic changes, energy crises, devastating
epidemies, family life and livelihood, arts, education, technology
and literature, and much else. The book shows how different groups
had an important role in shaping society: kings and peasants, pious
priests, nuns and crusaders, merchants, and students, without
forgetting minorities such as Sami and Jews. The book is divided
into three chronological parts 900-1200, 1200-1400, and 1400-1550,
where analyses of general trends are illustrated by the acts of
individual men and women. This book is essential reading for
students of, as well as all those interested in, medieval
Scandinavia and Europe more broadly.
This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal
systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two
countries became strong kingdoms and important powers
internationally by their participation in the crusading movement.
Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often
assumed and institutions, ideas, and military technology was
exchanged rapidly, meaning it was possible to coordinate great
military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western
Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea
and developed strong fleets, at the entrance to the Baltic and in
the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious
borders, to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims, that were pushed
forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries.
Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the
kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares
war-technology and crusading ideology, highlighting how the
countries learned from each other and became organised for war.
This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred
years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by
small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it
has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has
shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern
one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic
Empire. From the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it
comprised small overseas colonies in India, Africa and the
Caribbean. Exploring the rise and fall of Denmark's Kingdom, from 9
AD to the present, this textbook considers how such vast empires
were kept together through ideology and symbols, military force,
transport systems and networks of civil servants. The authors
demonstrate how the lands under Danish rule included a variety of
religious groups, social and economic structures, law systems, and
ethnic and linguistic groups. They also consider the economic and
ideological benefit of an empire structure in comparison to a
nation state. Providing a detailed overview of the long history of
the Danish Empire, whilst also confronting current debate and
providing novel interpretations, this book offers an original,
imperial and multi-territorial perspective on the history of the
Danish state, providing essential reading for students of Danish or
Scandinavian history and European or Global empires.
This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal
systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two
countries became strong kingdoms and important powers
internationally by their participation in the crusading movement.
Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often
assumed and institutions, ideas, and military technology was
exchanged rapidly, meaning it was possible to coordinate great
military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western
Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea
and developed strong fleets, at the entrance to the Baltic and in
the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious
borders, to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims, that were pushed
forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries.
Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the
kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares
war-technology and crusading ideology, highlighting how the
countries learned from each other and became organised for war.
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably
intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was
fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in
financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to
back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up
being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats
these three components of medieval faith together. This book
remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links
among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us
build a more complete picture of the working of the church and
Christianity in the Middle Ages.
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.
Monasteries were important cultural centers in the Middle Ages. In
monasteries, classical authors were copied and studied, new music
and new sermons were composed, and new standards from abroad were
introduced and spread throughout an ever larger Europe. Monks and
nuns created European networks, connecting them to individuals with
whom they shared particular interests in theology and learning, but
they also had a keen eye for the importance of cultivating
connections to local magnates and kings. In the long 13th century,
new orders like the mendicants emerged, and monastic life as a
whole flourished. Sustained experimentation, the adaptation of new
intellectual inspirations, and the adjustment of organizational
structures were major characteristics of this life. There was a
balance between contemplating the transcendent and securing the
material foundation that allowed the individual monk or nun to
disappear into the Divine. Monastic communities were powerful
centers for innovation that decisively influenced secular life and
shaped European history. The contributions in this festschrift are
offered in honor of Professor Brian Patrick McGuire, a recognized
authority on the Cistercians, and in acknowledgment of his
significant contribution to the study of European monastic culture.
Schleswig and Holstein have been contested regions for over a
thousand years, but contested between different peoples and groups,
and for very different reasons. In modern times, they have been
closely connected to the building up of national identity and the
formation of the modern nation state. Since the division in 1920 of
Schleswig into a northern, Danish part and a southern, German part,
this region has also been an interesting example for international
studies on whether it is possible to maintain regional cultural and
economic cooperation across a modern state border, and on the
rights and duties of linguistic minorities. This book aims at
viewing the areas in their own right over a period of thousand
years, and not simply as appendages to modern Danish and German
nation-building. This does not imply that they are seen as isolated
entities, still less that the regions around them and many strong
and varied influences from outside are ignored. Rather, the book
aims at investigating how Schleswig and Holstein have constantly
been contested places, situated where different interests and
forces have collided.
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