The Chronicler and the Modern World: Henry of Livonia and the Baltic Crusades in the Enlightenment and National Traditions

2011
Linda Kaljundi, Kaspars Kļaviņš

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century crusading ideology in practice. Step by step, it has become one of the most widely read and acknowledged frontier crusading and missionary chronicles. Henry's chronicle offers many opportunities to test and broaden the new approaches and key concepts brought along by recent developments in medieval studies, including the new pluralist definition of crusading and the relationship between the peripheries and core areas of Europe.

Atslēgas vārdi
history, chronicle, ideology

Kaljundi, L., Kļaviņš, K. The Chronicler and the Modern World: Henry of Livonia and the Baltic Crusades in the Enlightenment and National Traditions. No: Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier. A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia.. M.Tamm, L.Kaljundi, C.Selch Jensen red. United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. 409.-456.lpp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6627-1.

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)