Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

Sari Nauman is Associate Professor in History at Södertörn University and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.  Wojtek Jezierski is Associate Professor in History at Södertörn University, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University of Oslo in Norway. Christina Reimann is Postdoctoral Researcher in History at Stockholm University, Södertörn University and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.   Leif Runefelt is Professor in the History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction: Baltic Hospitality, 1000–1900; Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt.- Part I: Medieval Hospitalities.- 2. Spaces of Hospitality on the Missionary Baltic Rim, Tenth–Twelfth Centuries; Wojtek Jezierski.- 3. Ladoga as a Gateway on the Road from the Varangians to the Greeks: Icelandic Sagas on Security Measures, Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries; Tatjana N. Jackson.- 4. Merchants as Guests: Laws and Conditions of Baltic Trade Hospitality, Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries; Tobias Boestad.- 5. German Merchants in Novgorod: Hospitality and Hostility, Twelfth–Fifteenth Centuries; Pavel V. Lukin.- 6. Guests or Strangers? The Reception of Visiting Merchants in the Towns of the Baltic Rim, Sixteenth Century; Lovisa Olsson.- Part II: Early Modern Hospitalities.- 7. Ritualized Hospitality: The Negotiations of the Riga Capitulation and the Adventus of Boris Sheremetev in July 1710; Dorothée Goetze.- 8. Receiving the Enemy: Involuntary Hospitalityand Prisoners of War in Denmark and Sweden, 1700–1721; Olof Blomqvist.- 9. Conditional Hospitality Towards Internal Refugees: Sweden during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721; Sari Nauman.- 10. Between Home and the City: Receiving and Controlling Strangers in Altona, 1740–1765; Johannes Ljungberg.- 11. Friend or Foe? Soldiers and Civilians in Helsinki, 1747–1807; Sofia Gustafsson.- Part III: Modern Hospitalities.- 12. Threat or Nuisance? Foreign Street Entertainers in the Swedish Press, 1800–1880; Leif Runefelt.- 13. Hospitality and Rejection: Peddlers and Host Communities in the Northern Baltic, 1850–1920; Anna Sundelin and Johanna Wassholm.- 14. Hospitality and Securitization in Times of Cholera: Eastern European Migrants in Rotterdam and Antwerp, 1880–1914; Christina Reimann.