The Discovery of the Baltic by Blomkvist, Nils;

The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)

Series: The Northern World; 15;

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Publisher BRILL
Date of Publication 29 November 2004

ISBN 9789004141223
Binding Hardback
No. of pages774 pages
Size 235x155 mm
Weight 1345 g
Language English

Short description:

A study of Europeanization in the Baltic Rim 1075-1225 AD, comparing the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western one. A new approach to the period?s narrative sources brings real people?s attitudes and daily toils to life in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.

Long description:

Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery.
The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia.
Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.

'Combining the Annales school and the postcolonial thought with some Marxist concepts, clash of civilizations, and globalization inspirations, Blomkvist (Gotland Univ. College) produces a truly original approach to understanding the confrontation of an expansive and confident Western society with the older, Eastern-oriented, technologically backward, and diverse societies of the Baltic. .. Highly recommended. Advanced students and researchers.'
W.L.Urban, Choice, 2005.

Ch. 1 What is Europe to the Baltic? : a survey of the main topic and its sub
-problems 3
Ch. 2 The Catholic world
-system : a theoretical approach to Europeanization 35
Ch. 3 Cultural encounters on the Baltic : contemporary descriptions of the experience of Europeanization 97
Ch. 4 Network versus territorial control : the political dimension of long 12th century 'change qualitative' 203
Ch. 5 The regional panorama : a brief introduction to chapters six
-eight 279
Ch. 6 The discovery of Kalmarsund : the struggle for the gateway to the Baltic North 301
Ch. 7 The discovery of Gotland : the compromising society strategy and the emergence of international law in the Baltic 377
Ch. 8 The discovery of the lower Daugava : an anatomy of a clash 505
Ch. 9 The Catholic world
-system and the making of Baltic Rim states : political and nationalistic reactions to the coming of Europe in Sweden and Livonia 567
Conclusions and comments in retrospect : the coming of the Catholic world
-system and the Baltic Rim reaction 679