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Author Blomkvist, Nils.

Title The discovery of the Baltic : the reception of a Catholic world-system in the European north (AD 1075-1225) / by Nils Blomkvist.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 774 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 15
Northern world ; v. 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 717761) and index.
Contents Discovery Approach. An Introduction to the Problem and its Theoretical Framework -- What is Europe to the Baltic? A Survey of the Main Topic and its Sub-problems -- Catholic World-system. A Theoretical Approach to Europeanization -- Facing the Other. A Heuristic Approach to Discoveries -- Cultural Encounters on the Baltic. Contemporary Descriptions of the Experience of Europeanization -- Network versus Territorial Control. The Political Dimension of Long 12th Century 'Change Qualitative' -- Reception of Europe. Three Regional Case Studies -- Regional Panorama. A Brief Introduction to Chapters Six-Eight -- Discovery of Kalmarsund. The Struggle for the Gateway to the Baltic North -- Discovery of Gotland. The Compromising Society Strategy and the Emergence of International Law in the Baltic -- Discovery of the Lower Daugava. An Anatomy of a Clash -- Towards A Conclusion. The Quest for Strategies of Survival -- Catholic World-system and the Making of Baltic Rim States. Political and Nationalistic Reactions to the Coming of Europe in Sweden and Livonia -- Conclusions and Comments in Retrospect. The Coming of the Catholic World-system and the Baltic Rim Reaction -- Medieval and Early Modern Texts.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Summary A study of Europeanization in the Baltic Rim 1075-1225 AD, comparing the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western one. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings real people's attitudes and daily toils to life in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.
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Subject Catholic Church -- Baltic Sea Region -- History.
Catholic Church.
History.
Catholic Church.
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Baltic Sea Region -- Church history.
Chronological Term 600-1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Blomkvist, Nils. Discovery of the Baltic. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2004054598
ISBN 9781429429146 (electronic book)
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