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Author Blomkvist, Nils

Title The discovery of the Baltic : the reception of a Catholic world-system in the European north (AD 1075-1225) / by Nils Blomkvist
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 774 pages) : illustrations
Series The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 15
Northern world ; v. 15.
Contents The Discovery Approach. An Introduction to the Problem and its Theoretical Framework -- What is Europe to the Baltic? A Survey of the Main Topic and its Sub-problems -- The Catholic World-system. A Theoretical Approach to Europeanization -- Facing the Other. A Heuristic Approach to Discoveries -- Cultural Encounters on the Baltic. Contemporary Descriptions of the Experience of Europeanization -- Network versus Territorial Control. The Political Dimension of Long 12th Century 'Change Qualitative' -- The Reception of Europe. Three Regional Case Studies -- The Regional Panorama. A Brief Introduction to Chapters Six-Eight -- The Discovery of Kalmarsund. The Struggle for the Gateway to the Baltic North -- The Discovery of Gotland. The Compromising Society Strategy and the Emergence of International Law in the Baltic -- The Discovery of the Lower Daugava. An Anatomy of a Clash -- Towards A Conclusion. The Quest for Strategies of Survival -- The Catholic World-system and the Making of Baltic Rim States. Political and Nationalistic Reactions to the Coming of Europe in Sweden and Livonia -- Conclusions and Comments in Retrospect. The Coming of the Catholic World-system and the Baltic Rim Reaction -- Medieval and Early Modern Texts
Summary A study of Europeanization in the Baltic Rim 1075-1225 AD, comparing the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western one. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings real people's attitudes and daily toils to life in the midst of a change of epic dimensions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 717761) and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- Baltic Sea Region -- History
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Church history -- Middle Ages
Mission
Christendom.
Kerstening.
Expansie (macht)
Katholische Kirche.
SUBJECT Baltic Sea Region -- Church history
Subject Europe -- Baltic Sea Region
Ostseeraum
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
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