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Tables of Contents for The Northern Crusades
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
vii
1
Acknowledgements
viii
1
Chronological Table
ix
4
Northern Rulers
xiii
5
Spelling of Names
xviii
INTRODUCTION
1
6
1 NORTH-EAST EUROPE ON THE EVE OF THE CRUSADES
7
43
Land and Sea
7
13
Peoples
20
23
Interactions
43
7
2 THE WENDISH CRUSADE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, 1147-1185
50
23
The Crusade of 1147
50
9
Supporters and Chroniclers
59
6
The Slav Wars of Henry the Lion and Valdemar the Great
65
8
3 THE ARMED MONKS: IDEOLOGY AND EFFICIENCY
73
20
Varieties of Monastic Knighthood, 1128-1237
73
9
The Monastic War-Machine, 1225-1309
82
11
4 THE CONQUEST OF THE EAST BALTIC LANDS, 1200-1292
93
30
Livonia
93
11
Prussia
104
5
Estonia
109
4
Finland
113
10
5 THE THEOCRATIC EXPERIMENT, 1200-1273
123
16
Popes and Legates
123
4
The Battle for the Convert
127
5
The War on the Schismatics
132
7
6 THE LITHUANIAN CRUSADE, 1283-1410
139
38
The Roads to Collision, 1203-1309
139
13
The Morality and Recruitment of the Crusade
152
8
Wars and Politics, 1304-1409
160
7
Strategy and Tactics
167
10
7 THE CRUSADE AGAINST NOVGOROD, 1295-1378
177
22
The Debatable Lands
177
6
The Making of a Russo-Swedish Frontier, 1295-1326
183
6
The Crusades of King Magnus
189
10
8 THE CRUSADING STATES OF NORTH-EAST EUROPE
199
28
Systems of Government
199
8
Conditions of Men
207
9
Civilizations
216
11
9 THE WITHERING OF THE CRUSADE, 1409-1525
227
32
Tannenberg and After, 1409-14
227
4
Confrontations at Constance, 1414-18
231
10
The Survival and Extinction of the Order in Prussia, 1418-1525
241
7
Livonia and the Russians, 1400-1562
248
11
CONCLUSION
259
4
Further Reading
263
8
References to Sources
271
8
Index
279