Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region / Edition 1

by Anu Mänd, Marek Tamm

Overview

The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisation and colonisation on the north-east shore of the Baltic Sea in the late twelfth and the early thirteenth centuries. These radical changes have received increasing scholarly notice over the last few decades. However, less attention has been devoted to the interplay between the new and the old structures and actors in a longer perspective.

This volume aims to study these interplays and explores the history of Livonia by concentrating on various actors and networks from the late twelfth to the seventeenth century. But, on a deeper level, the goal is more ambitious: to investigate the foundation of an increasingly complex and heterogeneous society on the medieval and early modern Baltic frontier – ‘the making of Livonia’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367481285
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/03/2020
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anu Mänd is Head of the Centre for Medieval Studies at Tallinn University.

Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History at Tallinn University.

Table of Contents

List of figures viii

List of maps xi

List of tables xiii

Place-name equivalents xiv

List of contributors xvii

Introduction: Actors and networks in the medieval and early modern Baltic Sea region Marek Tamm Arm Mänd 1

Part I Early making of Livonia (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries) 15

1 Mission and mobility: The travels and networking of Bishop Albert of Riga (c. 1165-1229) Marek Tamm 17

2 Political centres or nodal points in trade networks?: Estonian hillforts before and after the thirteenth-century conquest Marika Mägi 48

3 Visual performances of power in the period of the Danish crusades Kersti Markus 70

4 Neophytes as actors in the Livonian crusades Linda Kaljundi 93

5 Politics of emotions and empathy walls in thirteenth-century Livonia Wojtek Jezierski 113

6 Donating land to the church: Topos as a legal argument in thirteenth-century Livonia Anti Selart 143

7 Mobility of the Livonian Teutonic Knights Juhan Kreem 158

8 Manuscript fragments as testimony of intellectual contacts between Tallinn and European learning centres in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Tiina Kala 170

Part II Late making of Livonia (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries) 187

9 City scribes and the management of information: The professionalisation of a transgenerational agency and its agents in Tallinn (c. 1250-1558) Tapio Salminen 189

10 Cistercian networks of memory: Commemoration as a form of institutional bonding in Livonia and beyond during the late Middle Ages Gustavs Strenga 212

11 The 'Hanseatic' trade of the Finnish Skalm family in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Ilkka Leskelä 232

12 Merchants as political, social and cultural actors: Tallinn burgomaster Hans Viant (d. 1524) Anu Mänd 251

13 Mintmasters as the nodes of the social and monetary network: The life and career of Paul Gulden (c. 1530-93) Ivar Leimus 279

14 Self-representation and social aesthetics: Wealthy Tallinn burgher homes in the early modern period Krista Kodres 300

Conclusion: From vineyard of the Lord to outpost of empires: Actors and networks in the conquest, government and society of Livonia (twelfth-sixteenth centuries) Alan V. Murray 320

Index 331

Editorial Reviews

"This volume is successful in both advancing the history of Livonia and in inspiring one to think more widely about actors and networks on other medieval frontiers of northern Europe; that is highly praiseworthy."

Matthew F. Stevens, Zapiski Historyczne

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