Winning Hearts and Minds: the role of the written word in the Crusades in north-eastern Europe in the fourteenth century.

Fischer, Mary

Abstract

This article examines how literary outputs and chronicles in particular were used in the fourteenth century by the order's leadership to document, justify and popularise the Teutonic Order's crusades in Prussia.

Citation

Fischer, M. (2010). Winning Hearts and Minds: the role of the written word in the Crusades in north-eastern Europe in the fourteenth century. In The Book in Germany (1-15). Merchiston Publishing

• Publication Date: 2010
• Deposit Date: Sep 19, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 19, 2013
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-15
• Book Title: The Book in Germany
• ISBN: 9780955356162
• Keywords: Deutschordensliteratur; "literature of the German Order"; Karl Helm; Walther Ziesemer
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6319
• Contract Date: Sep 19, 2013