Italian Intrigue in the Baltic: Myth, Faith, and Politics in the Age of Baroque

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Aušra Baniulytė
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Baroque Era ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract This article examines the role of myth in Italian cultural politics in the Baltic region during the Baroque era. A special focus for this analysis is the legend about a “kinship” between the Florentine Pazzi family and the Lithuanian noble family of the Pacas (Polish: Pac), known in the sources of the seventeenth century as “the Pazzi in Lithuania.” This legend prevailed particularly in the second half of the Baroque period, having developed under the influence of different political, religious, and social aspects of Baroque culture. It played an important part in the Papacy’s interests in Poland-Lithuania during the Counter-Reformation and in the commercial activity of Italian merchants in the Baltic, which coincided with the expansion of the monastic orders in this region and the cult of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, to whom the Pacas family expressed their devotion.

How can stakeholder participation improve European watershed management: the Water Framework Directive, watercourse groups and Swedish contributions to Baltic Sea eutrophication

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Blomqvist
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
Total Flow ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Institutional Landscape ◽  
The Baltic

Nutrient losses from agricultural land constitute an important part of the total flow of nutrients to lakes and seas in Sweden and the Baltic region. With the Water Framework Directive, to be implemented shortly throughout Europe, emphasis is increasing on the role of stakeholder participation and decentralisation of various responsibilities from authorities to groups in the civil society. This paper investigates a Swedish case where local watercourse groups (WCGs) have formed in order to be involved more actively in the efforts to reduce nutrient losses from agricultural lands. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the institutional landscape surrounding WCGs, goals, goal formulation and space of action.

New and old peripheries: Britain, the Baltic, and the Americas in the Great Divergence

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klas Rönnbäck
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Factor Endowment ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
One Step ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Baltic

AbstractIn his seminal bookThe Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz has argued that access to inputs from the vast acreages available in the Americas was crucial for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. But could no other regions of the world have provided the inputs in demand? Recent research claims that this could have been the case. This article takes that research one step further by studying Britain’s trade with an old and important peripheral trading partner, the Baltic, contrasting this to the British trade with America. The article shows that production for export was not necessarily stagnating in the Baltic, as Pomeranz has claimed. Qualitative aspects of the factor endowment of land did not, however, enable the production of specific raw materials, such as cotton, to meet the increasing demand. Thus, the decreasing role of the Baltic ought to a large extent to be attributed to the patterns of British industrialization, and the demand it created for specific raw materials, rather than internal, institutional constraints in the Baltic region.

scholarly journals Spring fuelling by arctic Dunlins Calidris a. alpina in the southern Baltic and the potential role of a changing climate

Ornis Svecica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3–4) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Johan Stedt ◽  
Åke Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Spring Temperature ◽  
The North ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Breeding Grounds ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Baltic

In spring, Dunlins Calidris a. alpina put on substantial fuel stores in the North Sea region before a long flight to breed in northwest Russia. There are hitherto no well-described fuelling sites in the Baltic region. In May and early June in 2004–2010 we trapped more than 1000 Dunlins at Ottenby, south-east Sweden. Most birds carried substantial fuel loads already when first trapped (much more than in autumn) and, more importantly, 37 within-season re-traps increased in mass at an average rate of 1.2 g/d. This corresponds to a fuelling rate of about 2.6% of lean body mass per day, among the highest recorded for this species. Stopover times were short; only 3.5% of the birds were re-trapped and they stayed on average only 2.2 days. Since the late 1970s, increasing numbers of Dunlins stop over at successively earlier dates. This coincides with an increase in spring temperature of 1.1–2.0°C in 1977–2010. Possibly, a warming climate has facilitated and selected for a gradual shift of the final fuelling sites closer towards the breeding grounds.

scholarly journals The food trade in the Baltic region: the place and role of Russia, 2013-2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Svetlana Yurievna Kornekova ◽  
Dmitry Evgenievich Makhnovsky
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Hanseatic League ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the dynamics of export and import of food products of the Baltic region in 2013-2018. It is stated that the introduction of a ban on the import of agricultural and food products to Russia in August 2014 had a negative impact on trade and economic relations between the Russian Federation and other countries of the Baltic region. It is hoped that the crisis period in the relationship will end, and as in the days of the Hanseatic League, countries will be able to establish a dialogue and resume mutually beneficial trade relations.

scholarly journals Building on Foreign Expertise. Military and Agricultural Experts and the Eastward Expansion of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Sweden

2022 ◽  
pp. 77-103
Author(s):  
Sebastian Schiavone ◽  
Otso Kortekangas
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Foreign Expert ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Military

In the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century, the Kingdom of Sweden was almost constantly engaged in armed conflicts with neighbouring kingdoms. Both offensive and defensive wars were characteristic of the Swedish foreign policy from 1550s to 1650s. The same period witnessed the emergence of the Swedish Empire because, due to these conflicts, Sweden was able to acquire new domains in the Baltic region and to expand its territories in both east and south. These geopolitical realities pushed all Vasa kings into multiple projects aiming to rationalise Sweden’s army and its military strategy as well as to develop the acquired areas in various ways. Our article presents two development project examples of this emerging empire (1) Scottish officers (the Swedish Crown acknowledged the military expertise of Scottish troops as well as their officers and tried to harness this experience for Sweden), and (2) the planned modernisation of Ingria through German and Dutch colonisation and agricultural development. The article examines the needs and expertise expectations that the Swedish Crown directed towards these foreign groups. The emergence of Sweden as a European empire did not occur in a geopolitical vacuum. International contacts and the influx of European expertise into Sweden were important factors in the building of the Swedish dominion in the Baltic region. By focusing on these foreign expert groups, one operating in the military world and the other in the agricultural sphere, this article illustrates the functions and roles that the Swedish Crown expected foreign experts to have on the eastern frontier of early modern Sweden.

A Court in Decline? Examining the Regality Court Records of Melrose, Roxburghshire, 1657–84

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vivienne Dunstan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Seminal Work

McIntyre, in his seminal work on Scottish franchise courts, argues that these courts were in decline in this period, and of little relevance to their local population. 1 But was that really the case? This paper explores that question, using a particularly rich set of local court records. By analysing the functions and significance of one particular court it assesses the role of this one court within its local area, and considers whether it really was in decline at this time, or if it continued to perform a vital role in its local community. The period studied is the mid to late seventeenth century, a period of considerable upheaval in Scottish life, that has attracted considerable attention from scholars, though often less on the experiences of local communities and people.

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