Product Description: Schleswig and Holstein have been contested regions for more than a thousand years, but contested between different peoples and groups, and for very different reasons. In modern times, they have been closely connected to the building up of national identity and the formation of the modern nation state...read more

Product Description: This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement...read more

Product Description: 'God wills it, God wills it!' - this was the response to the sermon of Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095, in which he exhorted his audience to take the cross and liberate Jerusalem. And his words spread, even to the remotest islands in the north of Christendom...read more

Product Description: This book examines how the crusades ideology was formulated in medieval historiography and how the crusading movement affected Christianity and the world beyond. The book also looks at the spread of the crusading movement to Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area...read more