Distorted memories and power: patrons of the Teutonic Order in the fifteenth century prayer of the Livonian branch

Gustavs Strenga

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2019, vol. 50, issue 2, 143-161

Abstract: The late medieval Livonia (Latvia and Estonia) was haunted by a conflict between the Teutonic Order and the church of Riga. This article shows how fake memories of the past and dead patrons were instrumental in this conflict and how these memories were used by the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order to create feelings of group self-awareness and identity during the late fifteenth century. In the article, it is revealed how memoria – commemoration of the dead – served for bonding groups of the living with individuals and endowments of land that had supposedly taken place centuries before.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2018.1511605

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