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Author Leighton, Gregory, author

Title Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades / Gregory Leighton
Published Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2022
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white), maps
Series War and conflict in premodern societies
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Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 LANDSCAPE IMAGERY IN THE TEXTS DOCUMENTING THE BALTIC CRUSADES -- Chapter 2 LITERARY THEMES AND LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION IN THE WRITTEN EVIDENCE FOR THE BALTIC CRUSADES -- Chapter 3 MAPPING LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION DURING THE BALTIC CRUSADES, THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter 4 RELICS, PROCESSIONS, AND SACRED LANDSCAPE IN THE BALTIC, THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter 5 SPACE, VISUAL CULTURE, AND LANDSCAPE SACRALIZATION IN THE BALTIC -- CONCLUSION -- CONCORDANCE OF PLACENAMES -- Appendix RELICS IN THE BALTIC REGION (THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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. 0It 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
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Ideology -- Baltic States -- History -- To 1500
Ideology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Landscapes -- Ardennes -- Baltic States -- To 1500
Landscapes -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Crusades.
HISTORY / Medieval.
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Landscapes -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Landscapes.
Ideology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Ideology.
Crusades.
SUBJECT Baltic States -- Church history
Subject Baltic States.
Genre/Form History.
Church history.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9781641894548
9781802700596
1802700595
1641894547