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

“This transhistorical volume explores the paradoxical nature of hospitality in the Baltic Sea region. Covering a multifarious gallery of social groups, the book demonstrates how deeply hospitality is interlinked with securitization.” – Marek Tamm, Professor of Cultural History, Tallinn University, E...

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Other Authors: Nauman, Sari (Editor), Jezierski, Wojtek (Editor), Reimann, Christina (Editor), Runefelt, Leif (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Baltic Hospitality, 1000–1900; Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt
  • Part I: Medieval Hospitalities
  • 2. Spaces of Hospitality on the Missionary Baltic Rim, Tenth–Twelfth Centuries; Wojtek Jezierski
  • 3. Ladoga as a Gateway on the Road from the Varangians to the Greeks: Icelandic Sagas on Security Measures, Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries; Tatjana N. Jackson
  • 4. Merchants as Guests: Laws and Conditions of Baltic Trade Hospitality, Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries; Tobias Boestad
  • 5. German Merchants in Novgorod: Hospitality and Hostility, Twelfth–Fifteenth Centuries; Pavel V. Lukin
  • 6. Guests or Strangers? The Reception of Visiting Merchants in the Towns of the Baltic Rim, Sixteenth Century; Lovisa Olsson
  • Part II: Early Modern Hospitalities
  • 7. Ritualized Hospitality: The Negotiations of the Riga Capitulation and the Adventus of Boris Sheremetev in July 1710; Dorothée Goetze
  • 8. Receiving the Enemy: Involuntary Hospitalityand Prisoners of War in Denmark and Sweden, 1700–1721; Olof Blomqvist
  • 9. Conditional Hospitality Towards Internal Refugees: Sweden during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721; Sari Nauman
  • 10. Between Home and the City: Receiving and Controlling Strangers in Altona, 1740–1765; Johannes Ljungberg
  • 11. Friend or Foe? Soldiers and Civilians in Helsinki, 1747–1807; Sofia Gustafsson
  • Part III: Modern Hospitalities
  • 12. Threat or Nuisance? Foreign Street Entertainers in the Swedish Press, 1800–1880; Leif Runefelt
  • 13. Hospitality and Rejection: Peddlers and Host Communities in the Northern Baltic, 1850–1920; Anna Sundelin and Johanna Wassholm
  • 14. Hospitality and Securitization in Times of Cholera: Eastern European Migrants in Rotterdam and Antwerp, 1880–1914; Christina Reimann