The Nationalization of Latvians and the Issue of Serfdom: The Baltic German Literary Contribution in the 1780s and 1790s
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

xi

Introduction

1

Background and Discussion

4

Primary Sources

6

Secondary Sources

8

Chapter 1: A Brief Account of Formative Historical Events That Shaped Social and Agrarian Relations Until the Mid-Eighteenth Century in Livonia

15

Livonia and the Latvians

16

The Baltic Crusades: The German Colonization of Livonia

19

Christianization of the Baltic Lands

20

German Colonization: Positive and Negative Aspects

22

The Rise and Demise of the Livonian Crusader State and the Agrarian Outcome

24

The Role of the Christian Latvian Church in the Facilitation of Early National and Cultural Identity in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

28

Pietismus and the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Livonia

38

The Dichotomization of Livonian Society: The Livonian Ständegesellschaft in the Eighteenth Century

46

The Consequences of the Great Northern War

47

The Adels-Matrikel of 1727

55