The House of Hemp and Butter : A History of Old Riga /
Riga was an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state. Beginning in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands, the book fo...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Genesis : Riga before Riga
- Watering the nations : Riga and the northern crusades
- Free air in the Hanse city
- Master of Riga : the archbishop, the order, and the Rath
- Old knights and new teachings : the Reformation in Riga
- Upheavals : the Livonian War and the Polish interlude
- Star city : the Swedish century
- "This accursed place" : the Great Northern War.