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Våld och Visioner : Möten med högre makter i Peter de Dusburgs Cronica Terre Prussie

Borg, Magnus LU orcid (2019) In Collegium Medievale 31(2018). p.5-41
Abstract
The Cronica Terre Prussie by Peter de Dusburg (c. 1330) chronicles the expansion ofthe Teutonic Order into Prussia and the Baltic region. Predominantly occupied witharmed conflict, the work also contains a considerable number of accounts of miraclesand wonders, the contents of which have not previously been studied as a corpus.This article attempts a quantitative and qualitative analysis of these accounts and ar-gues that they serve as ideological propagandist vehicles for explaining and justifyingthe occupation of the Prussian and Baltic lands by the Teutonic Order. The articlealso suggests the possibly intended use of the chronicle to serve as a didactic basisand a knowledge framework for sermons, and as such that the intended primary... (More)
The Cronica Terre Prussie by Peter de Dusburg (c. 1330) chronicles the expansion ofthe Teutonic Order into Prussia and the Baltic region. Predominantly occupied witharmed conflict, the work also contains a considerable number of accounts of miraclesand wonders, the contents of which have not previously been studied as a corpus.This article attempts a quantitative and qualitative analysis of these accounts and ar-gues that they serve as ideological propagandist vehicles for explaining and justifyingthe occupation of the Prussian and Baltic lands by the Teutonic Order. The articlealso suggests the possibly intended use of the chronicle to serve as a didactic basisand a knowledge framework for sermons, and as such that the intended primary au-dience would have been the priest brethren of the Teutonic Order (Less)
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Violence and Vision : Encounters with higher powers in the Cronica Terre Prussie of Peter de Dusburg
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Collegium Medievale
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31
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2018
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37 pages
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Oslo : Collegium Medievale
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0801-9282
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Swedish
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  series       = {{Collegium Medievale}},
  title        = {{Våld och Visioner : Möten med högre makter i Peter de Dusburgs Cronica Terre Prussie}},
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