All Outputs (3)

Establishing Prussia as a locus for crusade: the role of Nicolaus von Jeroschin’s Chronicle of Prussia. (2013)
Book Chapter
Fischer, M. (2013). Establishing Prussia as a locus for crusade: the role of Nicolaus von Jeroschin’s Chronicle of Prussia. In Medieval Mobilities: From Scandinavia to the Slavic Lands. Brepols

This article aims to show how the Teutonic Order exploited the cult of pilgrimage and traditional crusading appeals to position Prussia as a locus for crusade. In order to justify diverting crusaders to north-eastern Europe it was necessary to show t... Read More about Establishing Prussia as a locus for crusade: the role of Nicolaus von Jeroschin’s Chronicle of Prussia..

Winning Hearts and Minds: the role of the written word in the Crusades in north-eastern Europe in the fourteenth century. (2010)
Book Chapter
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

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.

Biblical heroes and the uses of literature. The Teutonic Order in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. (2001)
Book Chapter
Fischer, M. (2001). Biblical heroes and the uses of literature. The Teutonic Order in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. In A. V. Murray (Ed.), Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150 – 1500 (261-275). Ashgate Publishing