1st Edition

Making Livonia Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region

Edited By Anu Mänd, Marek Tamm Copyright 2020
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region

Marek Tamm and Anu Mänd

Part I Early Making of Livonia (Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries)

1. Mission and Mobility: The Travels and Networking of Bishop Albert of Riga (c. 1165–1229)

Marek Tamm

2. Political Centres or Nodal Points in Trade Networks? Estonian Hillforts Before and After the Thirteenth-century Conquest

Marika Mägi

3. Visual Performances of Power in the Period of Danish Crusades

Kersti Markus

4. Neophytes as Actors in the Livonian Crusades

Linda Kaljundi

5. Politics of Emotions and Empathy Walls in Thirteenth-Century Livonia

Wojtek Jezierski

6. Donating Land to the Church: Topos as a Legal Argument in Thirteenth-Century Livonia

Anti Selart

7. Mobility of the Livonian Teutonic Knights

Juhan Kreem

8. Manuscript Fragments as Testimonies of Intellectual Contacts between Tallinn and European Learning Centres in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Tiina Kala

Part II Late Making of Livonia (Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

9. City Scribes and the Management of Information: The Professionalization of a Transgenerational Agency and Its Agents in Tallinn (c. 1250–1558)

Tapio Salminen

10. Cistercian Networks of Memory: Commemoration as a Form of Institutional Bonding in Livonia and Beyond During the Late Middle Ages

Gustavs Strenga

11. The ‘Hanseatic’ Trade of the Finnish Skalm Family in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries

Ilkka Leskelä

12. Merchants as Political, Social and Cultural Actors: Tallinn Burgomaster Hans Viant (d. 1524)

Anu Mänd

13. Mintmasters as the Nodes of the Social and Monetary Network: The Life and Career of Paul Gulden (c. 1530–93)

Ivar Leimus

14. Self-Representation and Social Aesthetics: Wealthy Tallinn Burgher Homes in the Early Modern Period

Krista Kodres

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

Biography

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

Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History at Tallinn University.

"Making Livonia is a valuable addition to English-language scholarship on the eastern Baltic, which often places too much emphasis on the Crusades and disregards their aftermath." - Mihkel Mäesalu, Speculum