Week 14
Crusades in Eastern Europe
The first
four crusades and Eastern
Europe
From the "German
crusade" to the conversion of
Lithuania
- Andris Šnē,"The
economy and social power in the late prehistoric chiefdoms of eastern
Latvia," Archaeologia Lituana
6 (2006), 68-78 (Pack)
- Maria Starnavska, "Military orders and the beginning of
crusades in
Prussia,"
in The Crusades and the Military Orders. Expanding Frontiers of
Medieval
Latin Christianity, ed. by Zsolt Hunyadi and József
Laszlovszky
(Budapest, 2001), pp. 417-28 (Pack)
- László Pósán, "Prussian
missions and the invitation
of the Teutonic Order into Kulmerland," in The Crusades
and the Military Orders. Expanding Frontiers of Medieval
Latin Christianity, ed. by Zsolt Hunyadi and József
Laszlovszky (Budapest,
2001), pp. 429-448
(Pack)
- see the abstract of Juhan
Kreem's paper on the historiography of the Teutonic Order in Livonia
- see a chronology
of
the Baltic crusade and a brief
history of the German Order of St. Mary (Teutonic Knights)
- see pictures of Uexkuell
(Ikskile), Torun,
Riga
and Marienburg (outside
and inside)
Friday, November 28:
Thanksgiving break (no classes)
