Bernhard II of Lippe and the Reception of Livonia in the Miracle Stories of Caesarius of Heisterbach

2013
Kaspars Kļaviņš, Rudolf Schieffer, Arnold Angenendt, Martin Büchsel, Bruno Reudenbach, Egon Wamers, Ian Wood

Livonia is - even though it is long remained pagan and only at the end of the 12th Century missionized - at the beginning of the 13th Century quickly attached to the Christian Europe . Here, at first especially the Cistercians played a crucial role. At the same time Livonia became associated with the Christian European intellectual tradition.

Keywords
Christianity in Europe, Romanesque period, religion, history, Livonia

Kļaviņš, K., Schieffer, R., Angenendt, A., Büchsel, M., Reudenbach, B., Wamers, E., Wood, I. Bernhard II of Lippe and the Reception of Livonia in the Miracle Stories of Caesarius of Heisterbach. In: Credo. Christianisierung Europas im Mittelalter. C.Stiegemann, M.Kroker, W.Walter ed. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013. pp.647-648. ISBN 9783865688279.

Publication language
German (de)