By the mid-twelfth century the lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, from Finland to the frontiers of Poland, were Catholic Europea€?s final frontier: a vast, undeveloped expanse of lowlands,
This volume brings together twenty studies relating to the history of the Latin principalities established in Palestine and Syria from their foundation in the course of the First Crusade up to their d
Galbert of Bruges's The Murder, Betrayal and Assassination of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders is one of the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. It recounts the assassination of Charles,
While books and films have glorified and vilified the crusades to the Near East, the almost simultaneous crusades in the Baltic have received little attention. Murray (medieval studies, University of
Access to recently opened Baltic archives is part of the impetus behind the studies in this collection of essays. An international group of historians of medieval history write on various aspects of
