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Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century : Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nauman, Sari.
Other Authors: Jezierski, Wojtek., Reimann, Christina., Runefelt, Leif.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Migration History Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Praise for Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Baltic Hospitality, 1000-1900
  • Scope, Focus, and Questions
  • Hospitality: Between Security and Hostility
  • Hospitality: A Spatial Approach
  • Hospitality: A Transhistorical Perspective
  • Coda: The Legacy of Baltic Hospitality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • PART IMedieval Hospitalities
  • 2 Spaces of Hospitality on the Missionary Baltic Rim, Tenth-Twelfth Centuries
  • Assembly: St. Adalbert, 997
  • Kitchen: Bruno of Querfurt, 1009
  • Harborage: Bernhard the Spaniard, 1122
  • Antechamber: St. Otto of Bamberg, 1124-1125, 1128
  • Asylum: St. Otto of Bamberg, 1124
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Ladoga as a Gateway on the Road from the Varangians to the Greeks: Icelandic Sagas on Security Measures, Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries
  • Mare nostrum ("Our sea"): Introductory Remarks
  • …tendatur usque in Greciam ("…Extends Even to Greece")
  • Aldeigjuborg ok jarlsríki þat, er þar liggr til ("Aldeigjuborg and the jarl's Dominion that Belongs with It")
  • Peace, Security, and Hospitality
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Merchants and Guests: Laws and Conditions of Baltic Trade Hospitality, Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries
  • Hospitable and Inhospitable Communities?
  • Providing safety-But at What Cost?
  • Conditions of Trade Hospitality
  • Expelling the Guests-Or Retaining Them?
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 5 German Merchants in Novgorod: Hospitality and Hostility, Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries
  • Introduction
  • The Infra-Structure of Hospitality and Its Legal Aspects
  • Ambivalent Rhetoric of (In-)Hospitality
  • Everyday Practices vs. Strict Legal Regulations
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.
  • 6 Guests or Strangers? The Reception of Visiting Merchants in the Towns of the Baltic Rim, 1515-1559
  • Trade and Space
  • Research on Urban Social Structures and Trade Networks
  • Sources for the Status of Visitors in the Baltic Towns
  • The Host-Guest Relationship
  • Staying on the Ships
  • The Pyramid of Trust: Visitors and Security
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Part II Early Modern Hospitalities
  • 7 Ritualized Hospitality: The Negotiations of the Riga Capitulation and the Adventus of Boris Sheremetev in July 1710
  • Turning Hostiles into Guests: Hostage Provision During the Negotiations on the Riga Capitulations
  • Welcoming the New Host: The Adventus of Field Marshal General Boris Sheremetev to Riga
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 8 Receiving the Enemy: Involuntary Hospitality and Prisoners of War in Denmark and Sweden, 1700-1721
  • Captivity as Public Hospitality
  • Captivity in Aarhus and Uppsala: An Overview
  • Delegating Responsibility
  • Legitimacy and Compensation
  • Security Through Integration
  • The Geography of War
  • Concluding Remarks: Receiving the Enemy and Negotiating Hospitality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 9 Conditional Hospitality Toward Internal Refugees: Sweden During the Great Northern War, 1700-1721
  • Hospitality Toward Refugees in the Early Modern Era
  • The Official Story: Providing Security for All Subjects
  • The Local Stories: Strangers Struggling with Insecurity
  • Concluding Remarks: A Frail Hospitality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 10 Between Home and the City: Receiving and Controlling Strangers in Altona, 1740-1765
  • Receiving Strangers in Theory and Practice
  • At the Threshold of the Rathweinskeller
  • The Rise and Fall of the Burgher Captains
  • Idealized as Hosts-Perceived as Intruders
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.
  • 11 Friend or Foe? Soldiers and Civilians in Helsinki, 1747-1807
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Billeting19
  • Living Together
  • Public Spaces
  • Taverns
  • Sexual Relations
  • Economic Relations
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Part III Modern Hospitalities
  • 12 Threat or Nuisance? Foreign Street Entertainers in the Swedish Press, 1800-1880
  • The First Half of the 1800s: Entertainers as a Non-Issue
  • A Foreign Mass of Beggars: The Rhetoric Hardens
  • Noise-A Middle-Class Nuisance
  • Child Labor: Compassion or Contempt?
  • Concluding Remarks: The Death of Louis Bono and the Construction of Threats
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 13 Hospitality and Rejection: Peddlers and Host Communities in the Northern Baltic, 1850-1920
  • Peddlers in the Northern Baltic: Traders from Near and Afar
  • Mobile Trade in Sedentary Societies: Perceived Threats and Security Measures
  • Ambiguous Relationships Between the Peddlers and the Host Communities
  • Hospitality and Ambivalent Encounters Around Commodities
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 14 Hospitality and Securitization in Times of Cholera: Eastern European Migrants in Rotterdam and Antwerp, 1880-1914
  • Hospitality Toward Unwanted Guests: Eastern European Migrants in Antwerp and Rotterdam
  • Public-Private Migration Policy: Business, Protection, and Mobility Control in the 1880s
  • The Outbreaks of Cholera and the Reception of Eastern European Transmigrants Since 1892
  • Aid Societies' Hospitality and the Safeguard of Interests and Objectives (1880-1914)
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Places.

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