Download e-book for iPad: Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150–1500 by Alan V. Murray

By Alan V. Murray

This quantity represents an immense contribution to the background of the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of the Baltic lands within the heart a while, from the beginnings of the Catholic project to the time of the Reformation. the themes handled diversity from discussions of the ideology and perform of campaign and conversion, via reviews of the inducement of the crusading nations (Denmark, Sweden and Germany) and the consequences of the crusades at the nations of the japanese Baltic coast (Finland, Estonia, Livonia, Prussia and Lithuania), to analyses of the literature and historiography of the campaign. It brings jointly essays from either verified and more youthful students from the western culture with these from the trendy Baltic international locations and Russia, and provides in English many of the end result of the 1st decade of old scholarship and discussion after the cave in of the Iron Curtain. The intensity of remedy, range of methods, and accompanying bibliography of courses make this assortment an immense source for the instructing of the Baltic Crusades.

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