In this Book
- Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades
- Book
- 2022
- Published by: Arc Humanities Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- pp. v-viii
- Acknowledgements
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- Conclusion
- pp. 161-165
- Concordance of Placenames
- pp. 166-168
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- pp. 179-180
- Bibliography
- pp. 181-204
Additional Information
ISBN
9781802700596
Related ISBN(s)
9781641894548
MARC Record
OCLC
1350705660
Pages
242
Launched on MUSE
2022-11-14
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2022