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Fischer, Mary (2001) Biblical heroes and the uses of literature. The Teutonic Order in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. In: Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150 – 1500. Ashgate, Aldershot, 261 - 275. ISBN 0 7546 0325 3
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| ISBN: | 0 7546 0325 3 |
| Review: | This text represents a contribution to the history of the Northern crusades and the Chritianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages, from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. Topics covered include: discussions of the ideology and practice of crusade and conversion, studies of the motivation of the crusading countries (Denmark, Sweden and Germany), the effects of the crusades on the eastern Baltic coast (Finland, Estonia, Livonia, Prussia and Lithuania), and an analysis of the literature and historiography of the crusade. The book brings together essays from the western tradition adn essays from the modern Baltic countries and Russia |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Northern Crusades; Teutonic Order; Christianization; Catholicism; Biblical History; Bible as literature; |
| University Divisions/Research Centres: | The Business School > School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages |
| Dewey Decimal Subjects: | 200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism |
| Library of Congress Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion |
| Item ID: | 2265 |
| Depositing User: | RAE Import |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2008 11:54 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2009 15:13 |
| URI: | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2265 |
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