IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1104: Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, 11th-15th Centuries
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Wojtek Jezierski, Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Foerster, Det norske institutt i Roma, Universitetet i Oslo |
| Paper 1104-a | Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries: Women and Religious Bonds in Central-Eastern Europe, 11th-12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1104-b | Risk Society on the Frontier: Missionary Emotional Communities in Southern Baltic, 11th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1104-c | Expanding Communities: Henry of Livonia on Emotions and the Making of a Christian Colony, 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1104-d | Urban Community and Consensus: Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | During the high and late Middle Ages Baltic Rim gradually transformed from a terra incognita into a region populated by small and large communities. The Baltic was not only a place of cultural expansion of these communities but it also constituted their mental horizon and an imagined space. This session gathers papers exploring self-image of a number of communities: devotional, missionary, crusader, and urban. The contributions explore the way these communities defined themselves vis à vis the others, how they constructed their identities and customs, what emotions held them together and what role women had in upholding these connections. |