Imagined communities on the Baltic Rim : from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries / edited by Wojtek Jezierski and Lars Hermanson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : imagined communities on the Baltic rim, from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries / Wojtek Jezierski -- Imagining the Baltic : mental mapping in the works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, eleventh -- thirteenth centuries / Thomas Foerster -- Discourses of communion : Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: imagining the Christian Danish community, early thirteenth century / Lars Hermanson -- Envisioning a political community : peasants and Swedish men in vernacular rhyme chronicles, late fifteenth century / Margaretha Nordquist -- Communities of devotion across the boundaries : women and religious bonds on the Baltic rim and in central Europe, eleventh -- twelfth centuries / Grzegorz Pac -- Risk societies on the frontier : missionary emotional communities in the southern Baltic, eleventh -- thirteenth centuries / Wojtek Jezierski -- Expanding communities : Henry of Livonia on the making of a Christian colony, early thirteenth century / Linda Kaljundi -- An imaginary saint for an imagined community : St. Henry and the creation of Christian identity in Finland, thirteenth -- fifteenth centuries / Tuomas Heikkilä -- The making of legal communities : royal, aristocratic, and local visions in Sweden and Gotland, thirteenth -- fourteenth centuries / Thomas Lindkvist -- Urban community and consensus : brotherhood and communalism in medieval Novgorod / Pavel V. Lukin -- Urban community and social unrest : semantics of conflict in fourteenth-century Lübeck / Cordelia Heß -- Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod : Scandinavian perceptions of the Russians, late twelfth -- early fourteenth centuries / Bjørn Bandlien -- Transient borders : the Baltic viewed from northern Iceland in the mid-fifteenth century / Hans Jacob Orning -- Afterword : Imagined emotions for imagined communities / Barbara H. Rosenwein.

Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra incognita--but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place those people lived--it was also an imagined space through which they defined themselves and their identities. This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political. Contributors look at the ways these communities defined themselves in relationship to other groups, how they constructed their identities and customs, and what held them together or tore them apart.

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