Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity.

About the author

Gregory Leighton earned his PhD in History (2018) from Cardiff University, where he studied the Teutonic Order and crusading in Prussia and Livonia. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Leighton
• Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781641894548
• ISBN: 978-1-64189-454-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 239 mm x 159 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 496 g
• Illustrations: 14 Maps; 33 Illustrations, black and white
• Series: War and Conflict in Premodern Societies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous