Medieval Livonia

Uus allikas Liivimaa ristiusustamisest. Ida-Baltikumi kirjeldus Descriptiones terrarum’is

by Marek Tamm

published in 'Keel ja Kirjandus', no. 12, 2001, pp. 872–884

Liivimaa leiutamine: Uue kristliku koloonia kuvandi loomine 13. sajandi esimesel poolel

by Marek Tamm

published in 'Akadeemia', no 2, 2012, pp. 195–229.

When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn?

by Marek Tamm

published in 'Tuna. Ajalookultuuri ajakiri', special issue on the history of Estonia, 2009, pp. 35–45.

Communicating Crusade. Livonian Mission and the Cistercian Network in the Thirteenth Century

by Marek Tamm

published in 'Ajalooline Ajakiri', no. 3/4, 2009

Rescripta gratis? Professional writing in the administration of late medieval merchant cities in the Baltic Sea Area.

by Tapio Salminen

Published in: Detlef Kattinger, Jens E. Olesen, Horst Wernicke (Eds), Der Ostseeraum und Kontinentaleuropa 1100-1600: Einflussnahme, Rezeption, Wandel. Culture Clash or Compromise: Europeanisation of the Area of the Baltic Sea 1100-1400, 8. Schwerin, T. Helms, 2004, 145-150.

Aspects on Multilinguality in Late Medieval Livonia and Finland.

by Tapio Salminen

Published in:  Einfluss, Vorbilder, Zweilfel. Studien zu den Finnisch-Deutschen Beziehungen vom Mittelalter bis zum Kalten Krieg. Hrsg. von Vesa Vares. 6. Deutsch-finnisches Historikerseminar in Tampere 27.31.3.2003. Institut für Geschichte, Tampere Universität, Publikationen 20. Tampere 2006, 15-22.

The earliest Missives and Missivebooks of the Council of Reval - Some Remarks on the Management of Information in Fourteenth Century Town Administration.

by Tapio Salminen

Published in: Vervaltung und Schriftlichkeit in den Hansestädten. Hrsg. von Jürgen Sarnowsky. Hansische Studien XVI. Hansische Geschichtsverein. Porta Alba Verlag, Trier, 2006, 123-134.

The Chronicon Livoniae in Early Modern Scholarship: From Humanist Receptions to the Gruber Edition of 1740 [Abstract]

by Stefan Donecker

In: Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier. A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. Ed. by Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).

Alt-Livland zwischen römischen Kolonisten und jüdischen Exilanten. Genealogische Fiktionen in der Historiografie des 17. Jahrhunderts [English abstract]

by Stefan Donecker

In: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 60 (2011)

Neues vom ‘Beluga Schiff’ – ein Bremer Klinkerwrack aus dem 15. Jahrhundert

by Daniel Zwick

published in 'Nachrichtenblatt Arbeitskreis Unterwasserarchäologie' 16, 2010.

In this report new findings and interpretations on the late medieval Beluga Ship are presented, which was discovered... more In this report new findings and interpretations on the late medieval Beluga Ship are presented, which was discovered 2007 in Bremen, Germany. Particularly new dendrological results have shed an interesting light on the inconspicuous remains, which samples fall into two groups: an earlier of high quality timber cut in Livonia in the course of the 14th century, and a group of locally cut timber, dating into the second quarter of the 15th century. The first are interpreted here as imported timber and the latter as subsequent repairs, which were carried out locally before the ship was eventually scrapped on Bremen's historical shipbuilding site, the „Teerhof “, literally 'tar yard'. With an entirely clinker-built hull with iron rivets, cleft planks and wool caulking, it bears several characteristics that are reminiscent of Scandinavian shipbuilding.

Piemiņa un atmiņa: divas parādības vēlo viduslaiku Livonijas reliģiskajā un laicīgajā dzīvē [Remembrance and Memory: Two Phenomena in the Sacral and Profane Life of the Late Medieval Livonia]

by Gustavs Strenga

This article was intended as a brief study on remembrance (memoria) and memory in the late medieval Livonia as... more
This article was intended as a brief study on remembrance (memoria) and memory in the late medieval Livonia as the first scholarly steps in this field. Although studies of medieval remembrance and memory have undergone intense development in Western scholarship, in Latvian scholarship this field has been left completely untouched. The two main persons I am dealing with in this article are the Dominican Nicolaus Sapientis (lived in the mid-15th century) and the provost of the Riga Cathedral chapter Dietrich Nagel (1400–1468/69). The case of Nicolaus Sapientis shows how he remembered two deceased persons – positively, the bishop of Courland Johannes Tiergart and, negatively, the prior of the Dominican friary in Riga, Nicolaus van der Pernow. In two letters to the Riga town council, Sapientis shows his attitudes towards remembrance clearly – Tiergart receives his respect, but van der Pernow disgrace because of Sapientis’ conflict with him. If van der Pernow before his death, or his fellow friars after his death, had not preserved the memoria of him, van der Pernow’s remembrance could be endangered and his soul could be considered damned for suffering in the purgatory or even hell.
The story of Dietrich Nagel and his memoria has been less dramatic. Nagel clearly formulated the late medieval understanding of memoria in a document (1447) which preserves not only his own memoria but also remembrance of three other individuals. Nagel wrote that it is the obligation of every good Christian to remember the souls who are suffering in the purgatory. The essence of the whole late medieval understanding of memoria, as revealed here, is to be remembered after one’s death in order to escape long suffering in the purgatory. In the mentioned document Dietrich Nagel successfully constructed his own remembrance to ensure that it will be kept after his death.