Domesticating Europe â Novel Cultural Influences in the Late Iron Age Eastern Baltic

TÃµnno Jonuks

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Chapter 2 Domesticating Europe â Novel Cultural Influences in the Late Iron Age Eastern Baltic

in Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia, 1200-1350

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004512092_003

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By studying two seemingly distant phenomena â the cross symbolism and the appearance of mythological animals in the Late Iron Age art â this contribution argues that the Christian European worldview spread and was accepted by natives already prior to the official Christianisation in Estonia. The cross symbolism, represented on various objects and in multiple forms of design, was the most apparent in the twelfthâearly thirteenth century. In addition to imported objects, the cross was also favoured by local masters, indicating the value of the symbol to local craftsmen and/or customers. Likewise, the motifs of mythological animals, leucrottas, griffins, and dragons, partly as imported objects, partly manufactured locally, indicate that not only the knowledge of Christian doctrines spread, but different cultural phenomena, predominantly aristocratic, were accepted by the east Baltic inhabitants. As a result, an interlaced worldview formed where the local nobility had included different elements from the prestigious Christian European culture into their worldview. Such persons could have had Christian identity, despite remaining pagans for the rest of Christian Europe.

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Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia, 1200-1350

Reihe:Â The Northern World, Band: 93

ISBN:: 9789004512092

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 14 Jul 2022

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Altorientalistik und Ägyptologie	Internationales Recht	Pädagogik
Amerikanistik	Judaistik	Philosophie
Asienwissenschaften	Klassische Altertumswissenschaft	Religionswissenschaft
Bibelauslegung	Kunstgeschichte	Slawistik und Eurasienkunde
Biologie	Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften	Sozialwissenschaften
Biowissenschaften	Medienwissenschaft	Sprachen und Linguistik
Buchgeschichte und Kartographie	Menschenrechte und humanitäres Völkerrecht	Theologie und Christentum
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Chapter 2 Domesticating Europe â Novel Cultural Influences in the Late Iron Age Eastern Baltic