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

我的目标是研究中世纪普鲁士和利沃尼亚在征服和基督教化过程中的移民。我感兴趣的是，将移民和该地区新兴的殖民社会概念化为相互关联、不断演变的社会现象。我还想挑战受民族主义影响的普鲁士和利沃尼亚被划分为不同研究领域的历史学，并质疑日耳曼秩序是新社会变革的唯一决定性因素的说法。为了实现这一点，我将采用并改编尼尔斯·布隆维斯特的天主教世界体系模型，以及来自多个传统的一系列文字和考古证据。

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.