The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 5/8" X 6 3/8". viii, 774pp. Bound in glossy pictorial printed purple cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in white. Mild edgewear to binding, with bumping to corners and head and tail of spine, light dust soiling, and small tape repair to tear on bottom margin of leaf 101/102. Binding is firm, sound, and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this study of the Europeanization of the Baltic Rim between 1075-1225. Part of Brill's The Northern World Series: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD, Peoples, Economies and Cultures, Volume 15.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery. The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia. Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions. (Publisher).