Imagined communities on the Baltic Rim : from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies
Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11760100
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Other authors / contributors:Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979- editor.
Hermanson, Lars, 1967- editor.
ISBN:9789048528998
9048528992
9789089649836
9089649832
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra incognita--but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place those people lived--it was also an imagined space through which they defined themselves and their identities. This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political. Contributors look at the ways these communities defined themselves in relationship to other groups, how they constructed their identities and customs, and what held them together or tore them apart.
Other form:Print version: Imagined communities on the Baltic Rim. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016] 9789089649836