Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

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Contents: Preface Introduction: Henry of Livonia, the writer and his chronicle, James A. Brundage Part I Representations: Henry of Livonia and the ideology of crusading, Christopher Tyerman Sacred history, profane history: uses of the Bible in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Jaan Undusk Henricus the ethnographer: reflections on ethnicity in the Chronicle of Livonia, JA ri KivimAe Henry the interpreter: language, orality and communication in the 13th-century Livonian mission, Alan V. Murray Martyrs and miracles: depicting death in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Marek Tamm Henry of Livonia on woods and wilderness, Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen 'Verbis non verberibus' the representation of sermons in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Carsten Selch Jensen. Part II Practices: Riga and Rome: Henry of Livonia and the papal curia, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt The notion of a missionary theatre: the ludus magnus of Henry of Livonia's Chronicle, Nils Holger Petersen Bigger and better: arms race and change in war technology in the Baltic in the early 13th century, Kurt Villads Jensen Mechanical artillery and warfare in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Ain MAesalu An archaeological reading of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia: events, traces, contexts and interpretations, Valter Lang and Heiki Valk A-sel and the Danish kingdom: re-visiting Henry's Chronicle and the archaeological evidence, Marika MAgi. Part III Appropriations: The use and uselessness of the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia in the Middle Ages, Anti Selart The Chronicon Livoniae in early modern scholarship: from humanist receptions to the Gruber edition of 1740, Stefan Donecker Henry's Chronicle on the service of historical thought: editors and editions, Tiina Kala The chronicler and the modern world: Henry of Livonia and the Baltic crusades in the Enlightenment and national traditions, Linda Kaljundi with the collaboration of Kaspars Klavins The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia: a selected bibliography, Marek Tamm Index.