Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century : Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe.
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- Palgrave Studies in Migration History Series .
- Palgrave Studies in Migration History Series .
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 jarlsr�iki �at, er �ar 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.