| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
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The Northern World Ser. ; v. 75 |
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Northern World Ser
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| Contents |
Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond: Communicators and Communication; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1 Identity Formation and Diversity: Introduction; 2 Societies East and West of the Baltic Sea: Prehistoric Culture Contacts Revisited; 3 Riding to the Afterworld: Burying with Horses and Riding Equipment in Estonia and the Baltic Rim; 4 A Site of Intersection: Staraya Ladoga, Eastern Silver, and Long-Distance Communication Networks in Early Medieval Europe |
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5 Creating a Cultural Expression: On Rus' Identity and Material Culture6 "Varangian Christianity" and the Veneration of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Saints in Early Rus'; 7 The Rise of the Dominion of the ar-Rus in the Northern Parts of Eastern Europe, Seventh to Ninth Centuries a.d.: A Case of Culture Construction; 8 Bringing "the Periphery" into Focus: Social Interaction between Baltic Finns and the Svear in the Viking Age and Crusade Period (c.800 to 1200); 9 Contacts, Identity, and Hybridity: Objects from South-western Finland in the Birka Graves |
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10 Swords from the Carolingian Empire to the Baltic Sea and Beyond11 Dirham Hoards from the Gulf of Finland Region; Index |
| Summary |
"In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus' warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnicity -- Baltic States -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Ethnicity
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| SUBJECT |
Baltic States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011370
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Kievan Rus -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003310
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| Subject |
Baltic States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gustin, Ingrid
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Roslund, Mats
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| LC no. |
2016036861 |
| ISBN |
9789004328471 |
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9004328475 |
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