Contents

pp 5-7

List of Figures

pp 7-7

Editors’ Preface

pp 8-10

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

pp 11-34

Visions of Community

pp 35-36

Imagining the Baltic: Mental Mapping in the Works of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries

pp 37-58

Discourses of Communion: Abbot William of Æbelholt and Saxo Grammaticus: Imagining the Christian Danish Community, Early Thirteenth Century

pp 59-88

Envisioning a Political Community: Peasants and Swedish Men in Vernacular Rhyme Chronicles, Late Fifteenth Century

pp 89-120

Cultic and Missionary Communities

pp 121-122

Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries: Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central Europe, Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries

pp 123-154

Risk Societies on the Frontier: Missionary Emotional Communities in the Southern Baltic, Eleventh – Thirteenth Centuries

pp 155-190

Expanding Communities: Henry of Livonia on the Making of a Christian Colony, Early Thirteenth Century

pp 191-222

An Imaginary Saint for an Imagined Community: St. Henry and the Creation of Christian Identity in Finland, Thirteenth – Fifteenth Centuries

pp 223-252

Legal and Urban Communities

pp 253-254

The Making of Legal Communities: Royal, Aristocratic, and Local Visions in Sweden and Gotland, Thirteenth – Fourteenth Centuries

pp 255-278

Urban Community and Consensus: Brotherhood and Communalism in Medieval Novgorod

pp 279-306

Urban Community and Social Unrest: Semantics of Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Lübeck

pp 307-328

The Baltic Rim: A View From Afar

pp 329-330

Norway, Sweden, and Novgorod: Scandinavian Perceptions of the Russians, Late Twelfth – Early Fourteenth Centuries

pp 331-352

Transient Borders: The Baltic Viewed from Northern Iceland in the MidFifteenth Century

pp 353-378

Afterword: Imagined Emotions for Imagined Communities

pp 379-386

List of Abbreviations

pp 387-388

General Index

pp 389-394