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

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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.