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

Fischer, Mary

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

Fischer, Mary

Authors

Mary Fischer

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.

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