‎Moody, Oliver‎
‎Baltic‎

‎From Coast to Coast. Current Archaeological Research on Cultural Exchange along and across the Baltic Sea‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 189, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:43 b/w, 55 col., 14 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503621623.‎

‎Summary The Baltic Sea has functioned as a connecting environment for trade, migration, and cultural exchange since prehistory, enabling long-distance trade from the shores of Scandinavia to the modern-day Baltic States, Kaliningrad, Poland, and Germany. Despite the sea's historical role as a conduit for long-distance interaction, however, the reception of archaeological research in this area remains shaped by twentieth-century political divisions that instead transformed it into a barrier. This book offers a snapshot of recent and ongoing research, case studies, and archaeological projects focused on cultural interaction across and along the Baltic Sea. Covering the Iron Age, Roman and Migration Periods, Viking Age, and the Middle Ages, the volume presents examples of archaeological data that illustrate social and economic processes, cultural exchange, and the complex web of intercultural and cross-cultural relations among the societies that border the Baltic. Through these contributions, which foreground both continuity and disruption, this volume contributes to a deeper understanding of the Baltic Sea as a historically rich and multifaceted cultural landscape. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. The Brooches from Early Iron Age at Store Frig rd, Bornholm and Cultural Contact across the Baltic Sea: A Preliminary Report Tine Trolle 2. The Roman Period Cemeteries with Stone Circles on the Southern Baltic Coastland: State of the Debate and Research Perspectives Adam Cie?li?ski 3. Between Representation and Consumption: Animal Remains in the Inhumation Graves of the Wielbark Culture Kalina Sk ra 4. Glass Beads of the Late Roman Period from West Lithuania as Indicators of Communication across the Baltic Sea Rasa Banyt?-Rowell 5. Transfer of Objects Only? Scandinavian Imitation Solidi Anna Zapolska 6. The Elite Plot in the Cemetery of Ciep?e (Northern Poland): From Scandinavia through the Piast Royal Court to Pomerania? S?awomir Wadyl 7. Crossing Waters: The Scandinavian Influence on the Viking Age Cemeteries of Wiskiauten and Linkuhnen at the Curonian Lagoon Christoph Jahn 8. The Missing Trading Port of Wiskiauten/Mokhovoye on the Sambia Peninsula: A Final Assessment on the Archaeological Investigations 2005-2011 Annika Sirkin 9. Comparative Material Analysis of Medieval Artefacts from Eastern Baltic and Central Ukrainian Cemeteries using Transmission Electron Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy Techniques Khurram Saleem, Roman Shiroukhov, Ulrich Sch rmann, Jens Schneewei , Vyacheslav Baranov, Vsevolod Ivakin, Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, and Lorenz Kienle 10. Medieval Finds from a Large Puddle on a Small Island. Archaeological Research in Lake Hammers on Bornholm (Denmark) Bartosz Kontny and Finn Ole Nielsen 11. The Yatvingian 'Valley of the Kings' on the Szczeberka River (North-East Poland) Tomasz Nowakiewicz, Dawid Rembecki, and S?awomir Mi?ek‎

‎Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Terra Sacra II‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xx + 246 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:73 b/w, 9 col., 22 tables b/w., 20 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503551333.‎

‎Summary In the thirteenth century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic, whose territories were conquered and reorganized into Christian states run by the Teutonic Order, bishops, and their cathedral chapters. Castles were built, towns established, and colonists encouraged to settle under the leadership of the new Christian theocracy. But the changes introduced alongside Christianity not only transformed the culture of eastern Baltic societies, but also had a profound and - for the Baltic tribes, who saw many aspects of the natural world as sacred - deeply significant impact on the local environment. This seminal period in the environmental history of north-eastern Europe has been the focus of the ERC-funded research programme, 'The Ecology of Crusading', which explored the physical and conceptual ecological transformations associated with warfare, colonization, and religious conversion. This second Terra Sacra volume draws together a series of case-studies on Livonia and Prussia that provide a unique snapshot of recent research into environmental change during the Baltic Crusades and also explore long-term trends in landscape organization and environmental exploitation. The volume covers six key themes: building-construction in the conquered territories; food supply to the houses of the Teutonic Order; life in the multi-cultural towns of the eastern Baltic; transforming the physical landscape; transforming the spiritual landscape; and the Baltic Ordensland in its regional context. It forms a companion to Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States: Terra Sacra I. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Glossary List of Illustrations Introduction: Multi-Scalar Impacts of Crusading on the Environments of the Eastern Baltic -ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI The Environmental Setting of the Earliest Teutonic Order Stronghold in Elbl?g - JOANNA FONFEREK Timber and its Use from the Late Iron Age to the End of the Medieval Period in Latvia - M?RIS ZUNDE Resources for Castle Building in Medieval Prussia and Livonia - K.?M.?J. HAYWARD with a contribution by STUART BLACK Animal Exploitation in Karksi and Viljandi (Estonia) in the Late Iron Age and Medieval Period - EVE RANNAM E AND LEMBI L UGAS Written Evidence Concerning the Resources of the Teutonic Order in Livonia: The Cases of Karkus and Fellin - JUHAN KREEM Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Evidence for Animal Husbandry and Environmental Change in the Medieval Kulmerland - CHARLOTTE SCULL, GUNDULA M LDNER, AND DANIEL MAKOWIECKI The Plant Element in the Diet of the Inhabitants of Danzig (Gda?sk), Elbing (Elbl?g), and Marienburg (Malbork) During the Rule of the Teutonic Order: Historical and Archaeobotanical Perspectives - MONIKA BADURA AND BEATA MO?EJKO A Foul Perspective: Analysis of Invertebrate Remains in a mid-Fourteenth-Century Latrine from Riga, Latvia - GARY?A. KING Parasites and Baltic Crusading in Medieval Riga: Insights into Disease, Diet, and Hygiene - HUI-YUAN YEH AND PIERS?D. MITCHELL Evidence of Human Impact and Vegetation Change during the Late Iron Age and the Medieval Livonian Period at Some Sites along the Lower Course of the River Daugava - LAIMDOTA KALNI?A, AIJA CERI?A, KRISTAPS KIZIKS, KARINA STANKEVI?A, AGNESE PUJ?TE, AND ANDA DRU?KA Palaeoecological Evidence of Crusades and Subsequent Impact on the Livonian Landscape - NORMUNDS STIVRI??, SIIM VESKI, AND TRIIN REITALU Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Livonia: Lands of the Teutonic Order in Southern Estonia - HEIKI VALK Surkapurn and Kreken: The Phenomena of Name and Place and the Organization of Sacred Space in Prussia Using Archaeology and Other Sources - SEWERYN SZCZEPA?SKI Continuity and Discontinuity in the Sacral Landscape of Lithuania - VYKINTAS VAITKEVI?IUS Reorganizing the Livonian Landscape: Some Issues and Research Perspectives - KASPARS K?AVI?? Exploiting Animals in the Medieval North-Western Russian Frontier - MARK MALTBY The Teutonic Order's Role in the Development of a Medieval Eastern Baltic Cod Fishery: Evidence from Fish Bone Isotopes - DAVID ORTON, EVE RANNAM E, LEMBI L UGAS, DANIEL MAKOWIECKI, SHEILA HAMILTON-DYER, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, TAMSIN O'CONNELL, AND JAMES BARRETT‎

‎Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States. Terra Sacra I‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xxviii + 548 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:189 b/w, 8 col., 41 tables b/w., 51 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503551326.‎

‎Summary In the thirteenth century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic, whose territories were conquered and reorganized into Christian states run by the Teutonic Order, bishops, and their cathedral chapters. Castles were built, towns established, and colonists encouraged to settle under the leadership of the new Christian theocracy. But the changes introduced alongside Christianity not only transformed the culture of eastern Baltic societies, but also had a profound and - for the Baltic tribes, who saw many aspects of the natural world as sacred - deeply significant impact on the local environment. This seminal period in the environmental history of north-eastern Europe has been the focus of the ERC-funded research programme, 'The Ecology of Crusading', which explored the physical and conceptual ecological transformations associated with warfare, colonization, and religious conversion. This is the first of two Terra Sacra volumes, which share the aim of changing our understanding of the environmental impact of crusading and colonization in northeastern Europe. The present volume provides a detailed inter-disciplinary comparison of the environmental transformations associated with the emergence of the crusader states of Livonia and Prussia. It draws on and integrates a range of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, historical, and cartographic sources in order to highlight the diverse impact of colonization and landscape reorganization that followed in the wake of the Baltic Crusades. The companion Terra Sacra volume complements this survey by presenting a number of case studies from across the eastern Baltic region. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Terra Sacra in the Eastern Baltic - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Methodology and Interpretative Framework - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, ALEXANDER BROWN, ROWENA BANERJEA, AND KEVIN HAYWARD Chronology - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, ALEXANDER BROWN, AND STUART BLACK Sites in Livonia: The Historical and Archaeological Background - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, HEIKI VALK, JUHAN KREEM, AND GUNDARS KALNI?? Vegetation Change in Livonia: The Palynological Data - ALEXANDER BROWN Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in Medieval Livonia: The Zooarchaeological Data - MARK MALTBY, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, EVE RANNAM E, AND KRISH SEETAH Settlement Life in Livonia and the Impact on their Territories: The Geoarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Evidence - ROWENA BANERJEA AND MONIKA BADURA Reorganizing the Livonian Landscape - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, KASPARS K?AVI??, EVA EIHMANE, AGRIS DZENIS, AND JUHAN KREEM The Environmental Impact of the Conquest of Livonia - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Sites in Prussia: The Historical and Archaeological Background - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, MARC JARZEBOWSKI, MA?GORZATA KARCZEWSKA, AND MACIEJ KARCZEWSKI Vegetation Change in Prussia: The Palynological Data - ALEXANDER BROWN Farming, Hunting and Fishing in Medieval Prussia: The Zooarchaeological Data - DANIEL MAKOWIECKI, MIROS?AWA ZABILSKA-KUNEK, KRISH SEETAH, MARC JARZEBOWSKI, AND ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Exploiting Plants: Macrobotanical Remains from Prussia - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, MONIKA BADURA, AND MARC JARZEBOWSKI Settlement Life in Prussia at the Microscopic Scale and the Impact on their Territories - ROWENA BANERJEA Reorganizing the Prussian Landscape - MARC JARZEBOWSKI, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, TOMASZ NOWAKIEWICZ, AND MACIEJ KARCZEWSKI The Environmental Impact of the Conquest of Prussia - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI The Environmental Impact of the Crusades in the Eastern Baltic - ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI Appendix 1: Accelerated Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Radiocarbon Dates from Poland, Latvia, and Estonia - ALEXANDER BROWN Appendix 2: Uranium Series Dating - ALEXANDER BROWN Appendix 3: Enrichment Factors for Major and Trace Elements within Pit Deposits, ?wi?ta G ra, Poland - ROWENA BANERJEA Appendix 4: Enrichment Factors for Major and Trace Elements within Pit Deposits, ?wi?ta G ra, Poland - ROWENA BANERJEA Index‎

‎Trade in Good Taste. Relations in Architecture and Culture between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic World in the Seventeenth Century, ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Paperback, XII+219 pages ., 67 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503514895.‎

‎During the seventeenth century Dutch influence on the Baltic region, both economic and aesthetic, was unrivaled. In the wake of the Dutch monopoly on Baltic trade, cultural contacts between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic world flourished. The Dutch Republic was even to fulfil an exemplary function in the Baltic world (particularly in the Swedish Empire, the dominating power in the region), not solely limited to the commerce of commodities but extending to the domain of architecture and art as well. In this intensive cultural traffic, an important role was set aside for Dutch immigrants, architects, artists, and their agents. Apart from their regular activities as diplomats or news correspondents, agents mediated in cultural affairs for patrons in the North. As such, they occupied a key role in the relations between the Baltic world and the Dutch Republic. The pivotal element in these networks, they negotiated between Baltic commissioners and Dutch architects, artists, and suppliers of luxury items, including sculptures, tapestries, paintings, as well as a wide range of books and prints - all of which were available on the Amsterdam market. These extensive networks mark the Dutch Republic as a major centre of architecture, art, and information, crucial to the cultural development of northern Europe. The history of this lively trade in good taste is told on the basis of rich archival material, including drawings, book and art collection inventories, correspondence, travel journals, and diaries. New.‎

‎Baltic Way to Freedom. Non-violent Struggle of the Baltic States in a Global Con‎

‎Baltic Way to Freedom. Non-violent Struggle of the Baltic States in a Global Context. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Baltic Way to Freedom. Non-violent Struggle of the Baltic States in a Global Context.Compiled by Janis Skapars. Riga Publishing House Zelta grants 2005. pp. illus.c. The period of the Awakening allowed the three Baltic republics of the Soviet Union to respect their independence. A wide-ranging group of authors from Latvia Lithuania Estonia and other countries provides a more comprehensive view of events at that time not only from the perspective of the three republics but also from the perspective of the international community. The non-violent independence rule of the Baltic States is important for understanding the events of the world at that time and now. SKUalbe6c95a2113e9d1d0.‎