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Inventing Livonia: The Name and Fame of a New Christian Colony on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

Medievalists.net — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:29:04 +0000

The thirteenth century witnessed the emergence of a new region – Livonia – on the mental map of Latin Christendom.

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Which Baltic God/Goddess Are You?

Medievalists.net — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:58:16 +0000

Have you ever wondered who were/are the last pagans in Europe? Baltic Gods were never forgotten. Lithuanians have so many however who from the main ones do you resemble the most - Perkūnas, Žemyna, Vėlinas, Ragutis, Milda or Laima?

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Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:44:57 +0000

Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.

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Disputing Identity, Territoriality, and Sovereignty: The Place of Pomerania in the Social Memory of the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Ordensstaat

Medievalists.net — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:45:29 +0000

This dissertation analyzes state-formation, the development of historical consciousness, and the construction of identities in medieval Europe.

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The Sword Brothers at War: Observations on the Military Activity of the Knighthood of Christ in the Conquest of Livonia and Estonia (1203–1227)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:45 +0000

The Knighthood of Christ of Livonia (Militia Christi de Livonia) was the first of the medieval military religious orders to be founded for service outside the Holy Land and Iberia, and thus the first one to be actively involved in warfare anywhere in northern Europe.

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The Baltic Frontier: Why were there no Norwegian crusades in the Baltic?

Medievalists.net — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:24:45 +0000

In this paper I will focus on some of the reasons why Norwegian interests in the 12th and 13th century differed from that of the other Scandinavian and German ambitions in the Baltic region.

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England’s First Attempt to Break the Commercial Monopoly of the Hanseatic League, 1377-1380

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:47:17 +0000

During the second half of the fourteenth century English traders first seriously threatened the Hanseatic League's commercial monopoly in the Baltic. The League, attempting to defendits monopoly, treated the English unjustly,where upon in 1377 the English Parliament rescinded the charter that granted the League important concessions and privileges in its English trade.

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Navegación y embarcaciones en la época vikinga: diferentes fuentes para su estudio (Shipping and navigation in the Viking Age: different sources for study)

Medievalists.net — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:07:43 +0000

This article (in Spanish) is about Viking shipping and navigation.

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Estonian small towns in the Middle Ages: archaeology and the history of urban defense

Medievalists.net — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:39:12 +0000

The purpose of the current article is to summarize the material gathered from the excavations of the medieval town walls from the Estonian towns of Viljandi, Haapsalu, and Narva, to discuss when they were erected, and to analyze what their place was in Old Livonian and Baltic contexts.

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Island Words, Island Worlds: The Origins and Meanings of Words for ‘Islands’ in North-West Europe

Medievalists.net — Mon, 05 May 2014 16:57:14 +0000

This paper proposes the notion that words mirror ideas, perspectives and world- views. Etymologies and meanings of general words for ‘islands’ in a number of languages in North and West Europe are then discussed.

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