Visual culture and politics in the Baltic Sea region, 1100-1250 / by Kersti Markus ; translated by Aet Varik.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9004426175
- 9789004426177
- Crusades
- Round churches -- Baltic Sea Region
- Round churches -- Baltic States
- Architecture -- Political aspects -- Baltic Sea Region
- Architecture -- Political aspects -- Baltic States
- Architecture and state -- Baltic Sea Region
- Architecture and state -- Baltic States
- Baltic Sea Region -- History -- To 1500
- Baltic States -- History -- To 1500
- Architecture and state
- Architecture -- Political aspects
- Crusades
- Round churches
- Baltic States
- Europe -- Baltic Sea Region
- To 1500
- 948.5/0181 23
- DL61 .M3713 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Visual sources and the Danish crusades -- 2. Visual rhetoric in Denmark in the period of the Baltic crusades -- 3. Visual performances of power in Sweden -- 4. From trade to crusade: Visby -- 5. Manifesting a presence in Livonia and Estonia -- Afterword: Art and politics on the borderland.
"Focusing on visual sources and the cultural landscape, Kersti Markus offers a fresh perspective on the Baltic crusades in Visual culture and politics in the Baltic Sea region, 1100-1250. The book examines how visual propaganda was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy in the Baltic Sea region. In recent decades, Danish historians have highlighted the central role of the Valdemar dynasty and the bishops supporting them in the Baltic crusades, but visual sources show how the entire society was mentally prepared for a journey with redemption waiting at the end. A New Jerusalem was being built in Scandinavia, and the crusade to Livonia was conducted under the banner of Christ"-- Provided by publisher.
Translated from the Estonian.
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