Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades
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Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

About this book

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and international scholarship, the book discusses the paganism of the landscape in written sources pre-dating the crusades, in addition to the narrative, legal, and visual evidence of the crusade period. It draws out the key sacralizing elements as expressed in those sources, which structure the definition of sacred landscape, particularly martyrdom, the manifestation of the sacred, and use of relics in battle. By analyzing these aspects with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), a map of the Baltic campaigns emerges that provides a fresh approach to studying contemporary views of holy war in a region with no initial links to the loca sancta of Jerusalem or Europe.


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Year
2022
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781802700596

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Landscape Imagery in the Texts Documenting the Baltic Crusades
  7. Chapter 2. Literary Themes and Landscape Sacralization in the Written Evidence for the Baltic Crusades
  8. Chapter 3. Mapping Landscape Sacralization during the Baltic Crusades, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
  9. Chapter 4. Relics, Processions, and Sacred Landscape in the Baltic, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
  10. Chapter 5. Space, Visual Culture, and Landscape Sacralization in the Baltic
  11. Conclusion
  12. Concordance of Placenames
  13. Appendix. Relics in the Baltic Region (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
  14. Abbreviations and Short Titles
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

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