The Wendish Crusade of 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, took place at a critical phase in the evolution of crusading rhetoric.
The Wendish Crusade of 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, took place at a critical phase in the evolution of crusading rhetoric.
This book examines how Christian writers portrayed the conversion of Slavs beyond the Elbe River—a complex, centuries-long process spanning the tenth through twelfth centuries.