The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) by Blomkvist, Nils

The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004141223)

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The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) by Blomkvist, Nils

The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)

$182.00
The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) by Blomkvist, Nils

The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)

$182.00
Format: Hardcover
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Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery.
The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia.
Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.

Author: Nils Blomkvist
ISBN-10: 9004141227
ISBN-13: 9789004141223
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2004
Pages: 774
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.40w x 2.03d
By Nils Blomkvist
By Nils Blomkvist
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Nils Blomkvist, Ph.D. (1979) in History, Uppsala University, is Professor of Medieval History at Gotland University and leader of the multinational and interdisciplinary research project "Culture Clash or Compromise?" which involved some twenty scholars studying medieval Europeanization on the Baltic Rim.

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