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Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian–Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380–1410
- The Medieval Globe
- Arc Humanities Press
- Volume 6, Number 1, 2020
- pp. 93-119
- 10.17302/tmg.6-1.5
- Article
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Abstract:
This article analyzes a compilation of navigational texts produced by the Teutonic crusading order around 1400, arguing that the recontextualization of geographic knowledge—from local guides to written records—illuminates a spectrum of encounters and exchanges, both violent and collaborative, between indigenous people and Western colonizers in northeastern Europe.