Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

Gregory Leighton

book: Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

Open Access Published by ARC Humanities Press 2022

Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

Gregory Leighton

In the series War and Conflict in Premodern Societies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802700596

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Gregory Leighton earned his PhD in History (2018) from Cardiff University, where he studied the Teutonic Order and crusading in Prussia and Livonia. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 LANDSCAPE IMAGERY IN THE TEXTS DOCUMENTING THE BALTIC CRUSADES Open Access Download PDF	17
Chapter 2 LITERARY THEMES AND LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION IN THE WRITTEN EVIDENCE FOR THE BALTIC CRUSADES Open Access Download PDF	31
Chapter 3 MAPPING LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION DURING THE BALTIC CRUSADES, THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES Open Access Download PDF	65
Chapter 4 RELICS, PROCESSIONS, AND SACRED LANDSCAPE IN THE BALTIC, THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES Open Access Download PDF	101
Chapter 5 SPACE, VISUAL CULTURE, AND LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION IN THE BALTIC Open Access Download PDF	129
CONCLUSION Open Access Download PDF	161
CONCORDANCE OF PLACENAMES Open Access Download PDF	166
Appendix RELICS IN THE BALTIC REGION (THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) Open Access Download PDF	169
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES Open Access Download PDF	179
BIBLIOGRAPHY Open Access Download PDF	181
INDEX Open Access Download PDF	205

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Language: English
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 242
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14
Keywords: Crusades; military orders; northeastern Europe; Baltic historical GIS; Teutonic Knights; order

eBook

Published: November 15, 2022
ISBN: 9781802700596