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Title:Castella Maris Baltici, Volume 2
Series:(Archaeologia Medii Aevii Finlandiae, II)
Author:Magnus Josephson & Mats Mogren (eds)
ISBN:9187794128 : 9789187794124
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Pages:247
Weight: 1.124 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - December 1996
List Price: 18.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Finland: European archaeology


This book deals with the function of castles and fortified sites around the Baltic Sea AD 900-1500. The purpose of the series is to exchange knowledge of restoration and the research on castles and fortifications in the Baltic Sea region.

Some Finds of Underwater Barriers in Sweden and Finland; Narva Castle - an Outpost of the Occident; Steinburgen des 12.-16. Jahrhunderts im Dünamündungsgebiet; Burg und Stadt in Schweden in der Zeit von 1250 bis 1320; Abriss der Entwicklung der böhmischen Artillerieburgfortifikationen des 15. und Anfangs des 16. Jahrhunderts; Schloss Nyköping und die Rechnungsakten des Ritters Raven van Barnekow; Pre-Urban Settlements and their Systems of Fortification in Western Lithuania; Burgen und Stadtmauern auf dem Lübecker Stadthügel; Der Bau des Befestigungswerkes der Burg Turaida; Häme Castle and the Peasants of Häme in Medieval Wars; Castles and Coinage 1200-1300; Ladoga - an Early Medieval Fortified Settlement in the Eastern Baltic Region. Its Significance, Features and Functions; Why Did Vilnius Become the Capital of Lithuania?; The Round Towers on Sweden's Eastern Coast; Wandlungen der Funktionen der Burgen in Südostestland im 8.-15. Jahrhundert; Castles in two Conquests: England and Ireland Compared; Current Swedish Castle Research: The Hinterland Emphasis; Similarities and Differences Among Lettigallian and German Castles in Eastern Latvia During the 9th-15th Centuries; Feudal Iron Production and Castle-Building in the Marginal Zone of Medieval Denmark; Glimmingehus and Its Predecessor; Einige gemeinsame Merkmale der Kachelverzierung des 16.-17. Jahrhunderts in den skandinavischen Ländern und den Burgen Lettlands; Überblick über die Forschungen in Steinburgen Lettlands (1991-1993); Die Lage der Wehrbauten in der topographischen Situation und der Stadtplanung von Haapsalu; Die Befestigungen der slawischen und frühdeutschen Seehandelsplätze an der südwestlichen Ostseeküste im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert; Saxholmen and Edsholm - Differences in the Finds from Two Medieval Castles; Das Hauptkonventhaus des Deutschen Ordens zu Marienburg in Preussen; Tynnelsö - Ein Bischofspalast im Mälarsee; Fifty Years' Excavations of the Medieval Castles and Earthworks of the Islands South of Funen, Denmark; Even the Tallest Tower: Early Medieval Fortification Builders and Buildings on the Swedish East Coast; The Castles of Saxholmen and Edsholm: Castles as Symbols of Power and Habitation Sites; The Häme Castle Household during the Reign of Gustavus Vasa; The End of Wooden Fortifications in Lithuania; Short Descriptions of Excursion Sites; Bibliography/Literaturverzeichnis.