Problems of Migration and Settlement in the Medieval Eastern Baltic, c.1200-1400

我的目标是研究移民到中世纪普鲁士和利沃尼亚在他们的征服和基督教化。我感兴趣的概念化移民和该地区的新兴殖民社会的联系，不断发展的社会现象。我还想对带有民族主义色彩的普鲁士和利沃尼亚的史学划分提出质疑，并对条顿骑士团作为新社会变革的唯一决定性因素的说法提出质疑。为了实现这一点，我将采用和适应尼尔斯·布隆维斯特的天主教世界体系模型和一系列来自多种传统的文本和考古证据。

I aim to study migration into medieval Prussia and Livonia during their conquest and Christianisation. I am interested in conceptualising migration and the region's emergent colonial societies as linked, evolving social phenomena. I further wish to challenge the nationalism-inflected historiographical division of Prussia and Livonia into separate research spheres, and contest the presentation of the Teutonic Order as the sole decisive agent of change in the new societies. To accomplish this I will employ and adapt Nils Blomkvist's model of the Catholic world-system and an array of textual and archaeological evidence from multiple traditions.