The Discovery Of The Baltic

Author : Nils Blomkvist
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406440

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The Discovery of the Baltic by Nils Blomkvist Pdf

Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery. The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia. Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.

Author : Marek Tamm,Linda Kaljundi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317156796

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Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier by Marek Tamm,Linda Kaljundi 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.

Author : Dr Carsten Selch Jensen,Dr Marek Tamm,Ms Linda Kaljundi
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409482628

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

Author : Arnolds Spekke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Amber
ISBN : OCLC:270561833

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The Ancient Amber Routes and the Geographical Discovery of the Eastern Baltic by Arnolds Spekke Pdf

Author : Cathryn J. Prince
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137333568

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Death in the Baltic by Cathryn J. Prince Pdf

The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported. January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army's way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port and the passengers sigh in relief, three Soviet torpedoes strike it, inflicting catastrophic damage and throwing passengers into the frozen waters of the Baltic. More than 9,400 perished in the night—six times the number lost on the Titanic. Yet as the Cold War started no one wanted to acknowledge the sinking. Drawing on interviews with survivors, as well as the letters and diaries of those who perished, award-wining author Cathryn Prince reconstructs this forgotten moment in history. She weaves these personal narratives into a broader story, finally giving this WWII tragedy its rightful remembrance.

Author : CARL. DOUGLAS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9171265376

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GHOST SHIPS OF THE BALTIC SEA. by CARL. DOUGLAS Pdf

Author : Max Egremont
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374717209

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The Glass Wall by Max Egremont Pdf

Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the "Glass Wall" between Europe and Asia. Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic region. Caught between the giants of Germany and Russia, on a route across which armies surged or retreated, small nations like Latvia and Estonia were for centuries the subjects of conquests and domination as foreign colonizers claimed control of the territory and its inhabitants, along with their religion, government, and culture. The Glass Wall features an extraordinary cast of characters—contemporary and historical, foreign and indigenous—who have lived and fought in the Baltic, western Europe’s easternmost stronghold. Too often the destiny of this region has seemed to be to serve as the front line in other people’s wars. By telling the stories of warriors and victims, of philosophers and barons, of poets and artists, of rebels and emperors, and of others who lived through years of turmoil and violence, Max Egremont sets forth a brilliant account of a long-overlooked region, on a frontier whose limits may still be in doubt.

Author : Ineta Ziemele
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047416203

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State Continuity and Nationality: The Baltic States and Russia by Ineta Ziemele Pdf

The International Law Commission, when drafting articles on nationality of persons in situations of State succession, omitted cases of unlawful territorial changes. These do not result in State succession; they may be dealt with under the rubric of State continuity. The Baltic – Russian cases show the particularly complex nature of these situations, both as concerns agreement on continuity and decisions on nationality. The author examines in detail the Citizenship Laws of the Baltic States and Russia, as well as relevant constitutional and international statements about the international legal status of the States and responses of the international community thereto. The main question addressed in the book is about solutions which States have to adopt concerning nationality of individuals in situations of State continuity, especially where States re-emerge after long years of occupation. Although the book is specific in its origin, it is of general importance because it draws conclusions concerning developments in law and practice which are relevant for a better understanding and regulation of nationality and statehood in international law.

Author : Caroline Boggis-Rolfe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445688510

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The Baltic Story by Caroline Boggis-Rolfe Pdf

The Baltic Story recounts the shared history of the countries around the Baltic, from the events of a thousand years ago to the present day.

Author : Balázs Trencsényi,Maciej Janowski,Monika Baár,Maria Falina,Michal Kopeček
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198737148

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe by Balázs Trencsényi,Maciej Janowski,Monika Baár,Maria Falina,Michal Kopeček Pdf

This is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering a synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Covering twenty national cultures and languages, the ensuing work goes beyond the conventional nation-centred narrative and offers a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of discourses.

Author : Paul Milliman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004182745

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‘The Slippery Memory of Men’ by Paul Milliman Pdf

The Slippery Memory of Men analyzes how during the early fourteenth century a discourse of eternal enmity was created between the Teutonic Knights and the rulers of Poland as these former allies contended over the disputed region of Pomerania.

Author : Michael North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674426047

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The Baltic by Michael North Pdf

From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering a thousand years in a part of the globe where seas are more connective than land, Michael North’s overview transforms the way we think about one of the world’s great waterways.

Author : Kristine Suna-Koro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625647108

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In Counterpoint by Kristine Suna-Koro Pdf

What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing volume, Kristine Suna-Koro brings postcolonialism, diaspora discourse, and Christian sacramental theology into a mutually critical and constructive transdisciplinary conversation. Dialoguing with thinkers as diverse as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak as well as Francis D'Sa, S.J., Martin Luther, Mayra Rivera, and John Chryssavgis, the author offers a postcolonial retrieval of sacramentality through a robust theological engagement with the postcolonial notions of hybridity, contrapuntality, planetarity, and Third Space. While exploring the methodological potential of diasporic imaginary in theology, this innovative book advances the notion of sacramental pluriverse and of Christ as its paradigmatic crescendo within the sacramental economy of creation and redemptive transformation. In the context of ecological degradation, In Counterpoint argues that it is vital for the postcolonial sacramental renewal to be rooted in ethics as a uniquely postcolonial fundamental theology.

Author : David Bridges,Palmira Juceviciene,Roberta Jucevicius,Terence H. Mclaughlin,Jolanta Stankeviciute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134329311

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Higher Education and National Development by David Bridges,Palmira Juceviciene,Roberta Jucevicius,Terence H. Mclaughlin,Jolanta Stankeviciute Pdf

Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and purposes in order to embrace a role in relation to the development of the societies in which they are located. This change of focus has major implications for curricula, modes of teaching and the student body. International contributors to this wideranging text discuss different aspects of the phenomenon of globalisation in relation to higher education, but also in relation to moves by nation states to devolve government to regional and subregional bodies and the implications this has for educational systems.

Author : Chris Evans,Göran Rydén
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004161535

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Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century by Chris Evans,Göran Rydén Pdf

This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.