IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1043: Remembering the Crusades: The Legacy of the Baltic Crusades in the Late Middle Ages
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | University of Tartu / Universität Hamburg |
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| Organiser: | Anti Selart, Institute of History & Archaeology, University of Tartu |
| Moderator/Chair: | Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Institut for Kultur og Globale Studier, Aalborg Universitet |
| Paper 1043-a | The Baltic Crusades as lieu de mémoire in 15th-Century Prussia (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1043-b | Politicisation of the Remembrance of the Crusades in Late Medieval Livonia (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1043-c | History and Its Uses: The Presence of the Baltic Crusades in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | 13th-century crusades were the creation act of medieval Prussia and Livonia. The papers present how the Baltic crusading history was used in legal texts and chronicles of the following centuries. In Livonia conflicting archbishops and the Teutonic Order both created their own understanding of the early crusading period, so that two conflicting traditions of memory emerged. In Prussia the correspondence of the Teutonic Grand Masters repeatedly resorted to arguments from the period of the conquest of the territory. Besides the utilitarian remembrance as a reservoir of legal arguments, the crusading past also shaped here the general picture of the past and contextualization of the place of Livonia and Prussia in the universal historical development. |