Beyond the Sea
Reviewing the manifold dimensions of water as barrier and bridge
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
269 pages
978-3-412-22293-2 (ISBN)
Description
The dominant narratives about the seas and maritime regions in European societies have usually placed them at the periphery, distant from the social and political centres, and often perceived as empty spaces akin to deserts: they could be crossed but not used. Therefore, most categories to examine societies have been designed from a land-oriented perspective and with the focus on land-based societies. Changing this perspective and putting the sea - the periphery - in the centre challenges traditional narratives, leading to new, enriching interpretations. Following this path, this volume re-envisions water beyond its immanent physical character - as a space ascribed with various roles and functions, both bridging and dividing: a borderland of communication, a space to govern and to invest with symbolic meaning
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Persons
Editor
Marta Grzechnik is assistant professor at the Institute of Scandinavian Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Gdañsk (Poland) as well as post-doctoral researcher in the International Graduate School »Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea RegionÂ" at the Historical Institute of the University of Greifswald (Germany).
Heta Hurskainen is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and also works as a pastor in a local parish.
Contributions
Marta Grzechnik is assistant professor at the Institute of Scandinavian Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Gdañsk (Poland) as well as post-doctoral researcher in the International Graduate School »Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea RegionÂ" at the Historical Institute of the University of Greifswald (Germany).
Alexander Drost ist Historiker an der Universität Greifswald und erforscht Grenzen, Grenzkonzepte und kulturellen Austausch in Europa und Asien in der Frühen Neuzeit.
Content
Preface
Marta Grzechnik, Heta Hurskainen and Alexander Drost
Beyond the Sea. Introduction
Boris Dunsch
"Why do we violate strange seas and sacred waters?"
The Sea as Bridge and Boundary in Greek and Roman Poetry
Alexander Filiuschkin
Image of Seas and Rivers as a frontier between the different worlds in Russian Medieval narrative
Lehti Mairike Keelmann
Amber rosaries, Baltic furs, and Persian carpets. The Tallinn
Mary Altarpiece as an object of Hanseatic conspicuous consumption?
Magnus Ressel
The First German Dream of the Ocean.
The Project of the "Reichs-Admiralität" 1570 -1582
Tilman Plath
Naval Strength and Mercantile Weakness. Russia and the struggle for participation in the Baltic Navigation during the eighteenth century
Marta Grzechnik
From moat to connecting link.
Sweden and the Baltic Sea in the twentieth century
Ole Sparenberg
Mining for Manganese Nodules.
The Deep Sea as a Contested Space (1960s - 1980s)
Magdalena Schönweitz
The Öresund region. Between utopia and reality
Stefan Ewert
Governance-an Analytical Concept to Study the Baltic Sea Region?
Tim-Åke Pentz, Daria Gritsenko
Maritime Governance in the Baltic Sea Region. The EU's Success Story?
Jan Henrik Nilsson
Logistic Revolutions and territorial change.
Implications for the Baltic Sea region
Biographical Notes
Index
Marta Grzechnik, Heta Hurskainen and Alexander Drost
Beyond the Sea. Introduction
Boris Dunsch
"Why do we violate strange seas and sacred waters?"
The Sea as Bridge and Boundary in Greek and Roman Poetry
Alexander Filiuschkin
Image of Seas and Rivers as a frontier between the different worlds in Russian Medieval narrative
Lehti Mairike Keelmann
Amber rosaries, Baltic furs, and Persian carpets. The Tallinn
Mary Altarpiece as an object of Hanseatic conspicuous consumption?
Magnus Ressel
The First German Dream of the Ocean.
The Project of the "Reichs-Admiralität" 1570 -1582
Tilman Plath
Naval Strength and Mercantile Weakness. Russia and the struggle for participation in the Baltic Navigation during the eighteenth century
Marta Grzechnik
From moat to connecting link.
Sweden and the Baltic Sea in the twentieth century
Ole Sparenberg
Mining for Manganese Nodules.
The Deep Sea as a Contested Space (1960s - 1980s)
Magdalena Schönweitz
The Öresund region. Between utopia and reality
Stefan Ewert
Governance-an Analytical Concept to Study the Baltic Sea Region?
Tim-Åke Pentz, Daria Gritsenko
Maritime Governance in the Baltic Sea Region. The EU's Success Story?
Jan Henrik Nilsson
Logistic Revolutions and territorial change.
Implications for the Baltic Sea region
Biographical Notes
Index