ISBN:
9781641894548
,
9781802700596
,
1802700595
,
1641894547
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
,
illustrations (black and white), maps
Series Statement:
War and conflict in premodern societies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Leighton, Gregory Ideology and holy landscape in the Baltic crusades
DDC:
274.79
Keywords:
Ideology History To 1500
;
Ideology Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Landscapes To 1500
;
Landscapes Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
War Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Crusades
;
Kreuzzüge
;
Krieg
;
Naturlandschaft
;
Christentum
;
Ideologie
;
War - Religious aspects - Christianity
;
Landscapes - Religious aspects - Christianity
;
Landscapes
;
Ideology - Religious aspects - Christianity
;
Ideology
;
Crusades
;
History
;
Church history
;
Baltic States Church history
;
Baltikum
;
Baltic States
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Preußen
;
Deutscher Orden
;
Kulturlandschaft
;
Das Sakrale
;
Geschichte 1100-1500
Abstract:
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
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