In June 1219 Danish crusaders fought a vicious battle against local pagan warriors at the place in northern Estonia where Tallinn now lies. The battleknown then as the Battle of Lyndanisewas a narrow victory for the crusaders and eventually turned...Daugiau...
The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century cru...Daugiau...
Kurt Villads Jensen, Carsten Selch Jensen, Janus Moller Jensen
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: University Press of Southern Denmark, ISBN-13: 9789188568731)
The medieval idea of crusading was formative for Western identity and used for centuries&;it actually outlived the Middle Ages and has significant polemical potential even today. Crusading was a multi-layered phenomenon that could be mobilis...Daugiau...
Carsten Selch Jensen, Tracey Sands, Nils Holger Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen
Serija: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580443234)
This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (Livonia). Essays explore such topics as t...Daugiau...
The Chronicle of Henry of Lovonia was written by a missionary priest in the late 1220s to record the history of the crusades to Livonia (now Latvia) and Estonia around 1186-1227 to convert the heathen. It is one of the most vivid examples of the crus...Daugiau...
God wills it, God wills it! - this was the response to the sermon of Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095, in which he exhorted his audience to take the cross and liberate Jerusalem. And his words spread, even to the remotest islands in the north of C...Daugiau...
