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Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States. Terra Sacra I
, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xxviii + 548 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:189 b/w, 8 col., 41 tables b/w., 51 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503551326.
Summary In the thirteenth century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic, whose territories were conquered and reorganized into Christian states run by the Teutonic Order, bishops, and their cathedral chapters. Castles were built, towns established, and colonists encouraged to settle under the leadership of the new Christian theocracy. But the changes introduced alongside Christianity not only transformed the culture of eastern Baltic societies, but also had a profound and - for the Baltic tribes, who saw many aspects of the natural world as sacred - deeply significant impact on the local environment. This seminal period in the environmental history of north-eastern Europe has been the focus of the ERC-funded research programme, 'The Ecology of Crusading', which explored the physical and conceptual ecological transformations associated with warfare, colonization, and religious conversion. This is the first of two Terra Sacra volumes, which share the aim of changing our understanding of the environmental impact of crusading and colonization in northeastern Europe. The present volume provides a detailed inter-disciplinary comparison of the environmental transformations associated with the emergence of the crusader states of Livonia and Prussia. It draws on and integrates a range of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, historical, and cartographic sources in order to highlight the diverse impact of colonization and landscape reorganization that followed in the wake of the Baltic Crusades. The companion Terra Sacra volume complements this survey by presenting a number of case studies from across the eastern Baltic region. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Terra Sacra in the Eastern Baltic - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Methodology and Interpretative Framework - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, ALEXANDER BROWN, ROWENA BANERJEA, AND KEVIN HAYWARD Chronology - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, ALEXANDER BROWN, AND STUART BLACK Sites in Livonia: The Historical and Archaeological Background - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, HEIKI VALK, JUHAN KREEM, AND GUNDARS KALNI?? Vegetation Change in Livonia: The Palynological Data - ALEXANDER BROWN Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in Medieval Livonia: The Zooarchaeological Data - MARK MALTBY, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, EVE RANNAMÄE, AND KRISH SEETAH Settlement Life in Livonia and the Impact on their Territories: The Geoarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Evidence - ROWENA BANERJEA AND MONIKA BADURA Reorganizing the Livonian Landscape - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, KASPARS K?AVI??, EVA EIHMANE, AGRIS DZENIS, AND JUHAN KREEM The Environmental Impact of the Conquest of Livonia - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Sites in Prussia: The Historical and Archaeological Background - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, MARC JARZEBOWSKI, MA?GORZATA KARCZEWSKA, AND MACIEJ KARCZEWSKI Vegetation Change in Prussia: The Palynological Data - ALEXANDER BROWN Farming, Hunting and Fishing in Medieval Prussia: The Zooarchaeological Data - DANIEL MAKOWIECKI, MIROS?AWA ZABILSKA-KUNEK, KRISH SEETAH, MARC JARZEBOWSKI, AND ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Exploiting Plants: Macrobotanical Remains from Prussia - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, MONIKA BADURA, AND MARC JARZEBOWSKI Settlement Life in Prussia at the Microscopic Scale and the Impact on their Territories - ROWENA BANERJEA Reorganizing the Prussian Landscape - MARC JARZEBOWSKI, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, TOMASZ NOWAKIEWICZ, AND MACIEJ KARCZEWSKI The Environmental Impact of the Conquest of Prussia - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI The Environmental Impact of the Crusades in the Eastern Baltic - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Appendix 1: Accelerated Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Radiocarbon Dates from Poland, Latvia, and Estonia - ALEXANDER BROWN Appendix 2: Uranium Series Dating - ALEXANDER BROWN Appendix 3: Enrichment Factors for Major and Trace Elements within Pit Deposits, ?wi?ta Góra, Poland - ROWENA BANERJEA Appendix 4: Enrichment Factors for Major and Trace Elements within Pit Deposits, ?wi?ta Góra, Poland - ROWENA BANERJEA Index
Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Terra Sacra II
, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xx + 246 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:73 b/w, 9 col., 22 tables b/w., 20 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503551333.
Summary In the thirteenth century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic, whose territories were conquered and reorganized into Christian states run by the Teutonic Order, bishops, and their cathedral chapters. Castles were built, towns established, and colonists encouraged to settle under the leadership of the new Christian theocracy. But the changes introduced alongside Christianity not only transformed the culture of eastern Baltic societies, but also had a profound and - for the Baltic tribes, who saw many aspects of the natural world as sacred - deeply significant impact on the local environment. This seminal period in the environmental history of north-eastern Europe has been the focus of the ERC-funded research programme, 'The Ecology of Crusading', which explored the physical and conceptual ecological transformations associated with warfare, colonization, and religious conversion. This second Terra Sacra volume draws together a series of case-studies on Livonia and Prussia that provide a unique snapshot of recent research into environmental change during the Baltic Crusades and also explore long-term trends in landscape organization and environmental exploitation. The volume covers six key themes: building-construction in the conquered territories; food supply to the houses of the Teutonic Order; life in the multi-cultural towns of the eastern Baltic; transforming the physical landscape; transforming the spiritual landscape; and the Baltic Ordensland in its regional context. It forms a companion to Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States: Terra Sacra I. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Glossary List of Illustrations Introduction: Multi-Scalar Impacts of Crusading on the Environments of the Eastern Baltic -ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI The Environmental Setting of the Earliest Teutonic Order Stronghold in Elbl?g - JOANNA FONFEREK Timber and its Use from the Late Iron Age to the End of the Medieval Period in Latvia - M?RIS ZUNDE Resources for Castle Building in Medieval Prussia and Livonia - K.?M.?J. HAYWARD with a contribution by STUART BLACK Animal Exploitation in Karksi and Viljandi (Estonia) in the Late Iron Age and Medieval Period - EVE RANNAMÄE AND LEMBI LÕUGAS Written Evidence Concerning the Resources of the Teutonic Order in Livonia: The Cases of Karkus and Fellin - JUHAN KREEM Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Evidence for Animal Husbandry and Environmental Change in the Medieval Kulmerland - CHARLOTTE SCULL, GUNDULA MÜLDNER, AND DANIEL MAKOWIECKI The Plant Element in the Diet of the Inhabitants of Danzig (Gda?sk), Elbing (Elbl?g), and Marienburg (Malbork) During the Rule of the Teutonic Order: Historical and Archaeobotanical Perspectives - MONIKA BADURA AND BEATA MO?EJKO A Foul Perspective: Analysis of Invertebrate Remains in a mid-Fourteenth-Century Latrine from Riga, Latvia - GARY?A. KING Parasites and Baltic Crusading in Medieval Riga: Insights into Disease, Diet, and Hygiene - HUI-YUAN YEH AND PIERS?D. MITCHELL Evidence of Human Impact and Vegetation Change during the Late Iron Age and the Medieval Livonian Period at Some Sites along the Lower Course of the River Daugava - LAIMDOTA KALNI?A, AIJA CERI?A, KRISTAPS KIZIKS, KARINA STANKEVI?A, AGNESE PUJ?TE, AND ANDA DRU?KA Palaeoecological Evidence of Crusades and Subsequent Impact on the Livonian Landscape - NORMUNDS STIVRI??, SIIM VESKI, AND TRIIN REITALU Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Livonia: Lands of the Teutonic Order in Southern Estonia - HEIKI VALK Surkapurn and Kreken: The Phenomena of Name and Place and the Organization of Sacred Space in Prussia Using Archaeology and Other Sources - SEWERYN SZCZEPA?SKI Continuity and Discontinuity in the Sacral Landscape of Lithuania - VYKINTAS VAITKEVI?IUS Reorganizing the Livonian Landscape: Some Issues and Research Perspectives - KASPARS K?AVI?? Exploiting Animals in the Medieval North-Western Russian Frontier - MARK MALTBY The Teutonic Order's Role in the Development of a Medieval Eastern Baltic Cod Fishery: Evidence from Fish Bone Isotopes - DAVID ORTON, EVE RANNAMÄE, LEMBI LÕUGAS, DANIEL MAKOWIECKI, SHEILA HAMILTON-DYER, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, TAMSIN O'CONNELL, AND JAMES BARRETT
