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The Eastern Baltic Sea region experienced vast changes during the 12th and 13th centuries. Pagan territories were Christianised, new cities emerged, landscapes were transformed physically and in imagination, migrations took place that influenced political structures and religious lives. Missionaries, Crusaders and merchants from Northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden went to Livonia, Prussia and Finland.
This seminar will discuss the following questions: were these territories Europeanised or colonised? Was there just one model of ‘Europeanisation’ or there were other ways how to become ‘European’ (Gotland vs. Livonia, Prussia and Finland)? How the social and religious lives developed in these territories from the 13th century until the Reformation?
In this course, we will discuss theoretical approaches on studying Christianisation, Europeanisation and colonisation. We will also have a thorough look on that how the scholarship between the 19th and 21st centuries has viewed these complex processes. |
| Literatur |
Bartlett, Robert, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350 (London: Allen Lane, 1993)
Blomkvist, Nils, The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholicworld-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) (Leiden: Brill, 2005)
Kirby, David, A Concise History of Finland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Plakans, Andrejs, A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Nielsen, Torben K., ‘Mission and Submission. Societal Change in the Baltic in the Thirteenth Century’, in Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology, ed. by Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen and Kurt Villads Jensen, Studia Fennica, 9 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2005), pp. 216–31
Jensen, Kurt Villads, ‘The Christianization of Scandinavia, Northern Germany and Livonia c. 1000 – c. 1300. A Comparative Approach.’, in Das Mittelalterliche Livland und Sein Historisches Erbe = Medieval Livonia and Its Historical Legacy, ed. by Ilgvars Misans, Andris Levans, and Gustavs Strenga (Marburg: Verlag Herder-Institut, 2022), pp. 25–42
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