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The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck

Author : Graham A. Loud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429624520

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The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck by Graham A. Loud Pdf

The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was intended as a continuation of the earlier chronicle of Helmold of Bosau, and covers the years 1172–1209, in seven books. It was completed soon after the latter date, and the author died not long afterwards, and no later than 1214. It is thus a strictly contemporary work, which greatly enhances its value. Abbot Arnold’s very readable chronicle provides a fascinating glimpse into German society in the time of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his immediate successors, into a crucial period of the Crusading movement, and also into the religious mentality of the Middle Ages.

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

Author : Marek Tamm,Linda Kaljundi,Carsten Selch Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317156789

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Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier by Marek Tamm,Linda Kaljundi,Carsten Selch Jensen Pdf

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 Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

Author : Alan V. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351892605

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The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier by Alan V. Murray Pdf

The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous peoples of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, Lithuania and Pomerania, it was also a period of wider cultural conflict and transformation. Along with the Christian faith came a new and foreign culture: the German and Scandinavian languages of the crusaders and the Latin of their priests, new names for places, superior military technology, and churches and fortifications built of stone. For newly baptized populations, the acceptance of Christianity encompassed major changes in the organization and practice of political, religious and social life, entailing the acceptance of government by alien elites, of new cultic practices, and of new obligations such as taxes, tithes and military service in the armies of the Christian rulers. At the same time, as the Western conquerors carried their campaigns beyond pagan territory into the principalities of north-western Russia, the Baltic Crusades also developed into a struggle between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. This collection of sixteen essays by both established and younger scholars explores the theme of clash of cultures from a variety of perspectives, discussing the nature and ideology of crusading in the medieval Baltic region, the struggle between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and the cultural confrontation that accompanied the process of conversion, in subjects as diverse as religious observation, political structures, the practice of warfare, art and music, and perceptions of the landscape.

Crusades

Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar,Jonathan Phillips,Iris Shagrir,Nikolaos G. Chrissis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000347203

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Crusades by Benjamin Z. Kedar,Jonathan Phillips,Iris Shagrir,Nikolaos G. Chrissis Pdf

Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources - narrative, homiletic and documentary - but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Professor Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Professor Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; and Iris Shagrir, The Open University of Israel.

Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages

Author : Benjamin Pohl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192514707

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Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages by Benjamin Pohl Pdf

This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time and resources were set aside routinely. Each act of historiographical production constituted an extraordinary event, one for which singular provision had to be made, workers and materials assigned, time carved out from the monastic routine, and licence granted. This allocation of human and material resources was the responsibility and prerogative of the monastic superior. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of primary evidence gathered from across the medieval Latin West, this book is the first to investigate systematically how and why abbots and abbesses exercised their official authority and resources to lay the foundations on which their communities' historiographical traditions were built by themselves and others. It showcases them as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives who not only regularly put pen to parchment personally, but also, and perhaps more importantly, enabled others inside and outside their communities by granting them the resources and licence to write. Revealing the intrinsic relationship between abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages with unprecedented clarity, Benjamin Pohl urges us to revisit and revise our understanding of monastic historiography, its processes, and its protagonists in ways that require some radical rethinking of the medieval historian's craft in communal and institutional contexts.

The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative

Author : Beth C. Spacey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275182

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The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative by Beth C. Spacey Pdf

First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.

The Popes and the Baltic Crusades

Author : Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004155022

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The Popes and the Baltic Crusades by Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt Pdf

"The Popes and the Baltic Crusades" examines the formulation of papal policy on the crusades and missions in the Baltic region in the central Middle Ages and analyses why and how the crusade concept was extended from the Holy Land to the Baltic region.

A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004696914

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A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus by Anonim Pdf

Ever since the publication of Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum at the beginning of the thirteenth century, scholars and laymen have grappled with the complex and marvellous chronicle. As much specialized scholarship has been published in Danish, this companion breaks new ground by giving a comprehensive and up-to-date tour of the work for a global audience. Attention is given to the unity of Saxo’s massive chronicle, whether he is dealing with a legendary pagan past or events from his own time. Saxo’s world and views are explored in ways that shed new light on all of northern Europe. Contributors are Bjørn Bandlien, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Michael H. Gelting, Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, Lars Hermanson, Lars Kjær, Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Annette Lassen, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, Lars Boje Mortensen, Mia Münster-Swendsen, Erik Niblaeus, Roland Scheel, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, and Helle Vogt.

Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea

Author : Carsten Selch Jensen,Kurt Villads Jensen,Tuomas M S Lehtonen,Nils Holger Petersen,Tracey Sands
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443241

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Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea by Carsten Selch Jensen,Kurt Villads Jensen,Tuomas M S Lehtonen,Nils Holger Petersen,Tracey Sands Pdf

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.

The Fifth Crusade in Context

Author : E.J. Mylod,Guy Perry,Thomas W. Smith,Jan Vandeburie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317160182

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The Fifth Crusade in Context by E.J. Mylod,Guy Perry,Thomas W. Smith,Jan Vandeburie Pdf

The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, Pope Innocent III's reform agenda was set to give momentum to a new crusading effort. Despite the untimely death of Innocent III in 1216, the elaborate organisation and firm crusading framework made it possible for Pope Honorius III to launch and oversee the expedition. The Fifth Crusade marked the last time that a medieval pope would succeed in mounting a full-scale, genuinely international crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land, yet, despite its significance, it has largely been neglected in the historiography. The crusade was much more than just a military campaign, and the present book locates it in the contemporary context for the first time. The Fifth Crusade in Context is of crucial importance not only to better understand the organization and execution of the expedition itself, but also to appreciate its place in the longer history of crusading, as well as the significance of its impact on the medieval world.

Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200

Author : Björn Weiler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316518427

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Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200 by Björn Weiler Pdf

What did kingship mean to medieval Europeans - especially to those who did not wear a crown? From the training of heirs, to the deathbed of kings and the choosing of their successors, this engaging study explores how a ruler's subjects shaped both the idea and the reality of power.

Making Livonia

Author : Anu Mänd,Marek Tamm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000076936

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Making Livonia by Anu Mänd,Marek Tamm Pdf

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’.

Between Sword and Prayer

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004353626

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Between Sword and Prayer by Anonim Pdf

Between Sword and Prayer brings together diverse studies on the involvement of medieval European clergy in warfare and military activities, spanning a broad geographical range and multiple interpretive perspectives, including legal, literary, historical, and hagiographical approaches.

Pope Celestine III (1191–1198)

Author : John Doran,Damian J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351910095

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Pope Celestine III (1191–1198) by John Doran,Damian J. Smith Pdf

Hyacinth Bobone (c. 1105-1198) was one of the great figures of twelfth-century Europe. Active in the Roman Curia from the 1120s, a student in Paris, and associated with both Peter Abelard and Arnold of Brescia, he was made cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in 1144 and served there during forty-seven years before being elected as pope in 1191. As curial cardinal and as papal legate in France, Spain, Portugal and the Empire, he was deeply involved in many of the major political conflicts and ecclesiastical reforms of his time. As pope, he contended with formidable secular rulers and serious setbacks for the crusading movement. His pontificate saw particularly notable developments in the fields of canon law and canonization policy, while his Roman origins influenced his artistic patronage in Rome and his attitude to the city's Jews. Yet this remarkable pope has been overshadowed by his celebrated successor, Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) and there has been no full-length study of his life since 1905. The fourteen studies presented here offer a fresh look at Hyacinth's early life in Rome, Paris and as legate, explain his relationship as cardinal and pope with the Christian kings, examine his promotion of the crusade in the Holy Land, on the Baltic Frontier and in the Iberian Peninsula, and analyze his role as pastor and reformer. These articles, written by leading experts in their respective fields, inform us not only on the life of an exceptional churchman but also of the vibrant and rapidly changing times in which he lived.

The Medieval Chronicle 13

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004428560

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The Medieval Chronicle 13 by Anonim Pdf

Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.