Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

Wojtek Jezierski works as a postdoc in medieval history at the Department of Historical Studies, Gothenburg University. He holds an MA in history from Warsaw University (2003) where he also studied social anthropology.Lars Hermanson is a professor at the Department of Historical Studies at Gothenburg University.

• Editors' Preface, List of Maps and Figures, Wojtek Jezierski Introduction: Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, From the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries Visions of Community Thomas Foerster Imagining the Baltic: Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries Lars Hermanson Discourses of Communion: Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century Margaretha Nordquist Envisioning a Political Community: Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late Fifteenth Century Cultic & Missionary Communities Grzegorz Pac Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries: Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central-Eastern Europe, Eleventh - Twelfth Centuries Wojtek Jezierski Risk Societies on the Frontier: Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh - Thirteenth Centuries Linda Kaljundi Expanding Communities: Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early Thirteenth Century Tuomas Heikkilä An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community: St Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth - Fifteenth Centuries Legal & Urban Communities Thomas Lindkvist The Making of Legal Communities: Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth - Fourteenth Centuries Pavel V. Lukin Urban Community and Consensus: Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod Cordelia Heß Urban Community and Social Unrest: Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar Bjørn Bandlien Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod: Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth - Early Fourteenth Centuries Hans Jacob Orning Transient Borders: The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the Mid-Fifteenth Century Barbara H. Rosenwein Afterword: Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities, General Index.

"Communities in the medieval north: imagined, mapped, constructed, perceived. Fresh looks on old sources, a methodological milestone. But also a book with amazing stories and inciting examples - in short, a good read." Kurt Villads Jensen, Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University