by EricChristiansen (Author)
The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic and Northern medieval research, this authoritative overview provides a balanced and compelling account of a tumultuous era.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 320
Edition: 2nd Second Edition, Revised ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 04 Dec 1997
ISBN 10: 0140266534
ISBN 13: 9780140266535
For a one-volume history of the Northern Crusades, the reader has but one choice; this is it
--William Urban in the American Historical Review
A fine study of the Baltic conquest
--Hans Eberhard Meyer in the English Historical Reivew
Independent, erudite, lucid and witty ... a narrative that never flags
--Christpher Tyerman
A fascinating and elegant book
--Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the London Review of Books