What to read after Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier?

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia in around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century crusading ideology in practice. While recent years have produced a significant amount of new research into Henry of Livonia, much of it has been limited to particular historical traditions and languages. A key objective of this book is to synthesise the current state of research for the international scholarly audience. The first part, 'Representations, ' brings into focus the imaginary sphere of the chronicle - the various images brought into existence by the amalgamation of crusading and missionary ideology and the frontier experience. This is followed by studies on 'Practices, ' which examines the chronicle's reflections of the diplomatic, religious, and military practices of the Christianisation and colonisation processes in medieval Livonia. The volume concludes with a section on the 'Appropriations, ' which maps the reception history of the chronicle: the dynamics of the medieval, early modern and modern national uses and abuses of the te