Livonia, Rus' and the Baltic Crusades in the thirteenth century
By: by Anti Selart ; translated by Fiona Robb
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 -- vol. 29
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789004284746; 9789004284753
Subjects: History; Crusades; Church history
Work titles: Livland und die Rus' im 13. Jahrhunder
Description: "This monograph by Anti Selart is the first comprehensive study available in English on the relations between northern crusaders and Rus'. Selart re-examines the central issues of this crucial period of establishing the medieval relations of the Catholic and Orthodox worlds like the Battle on the Ice (1242) and the role of Alexander Nevsky using the relevant source material of both 'sides'. He also considers the wide context of the history of crusading and the whole Eastern and Northern Europe from Hungary and Poland to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in 1180-1330. This monograph contests the existence of the constitutive religious conflict and extensive aggressive strategies in the region – the ideas which had played a central role in modern historiography and ideology."--
Notes: "Originally published in German by Böhlau in 2007: Livland und die Rus' im 13. Jahrhunder."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The religious frontier in Eastern Europe in the twelfth century; title: The beginning of the crusades in Livonia and their impact on Rus'; title: Livonia and Rus' in the 1230s and 1240s; title: Rus' in the Catholic sources from the first half of the 13th century; title: Relations between Rus' and Livonia under Archbishop Albert Suerbeer (1245-73); title: Livonia and Rus', 1260-1330; title: The neighbouring Russian principalities in the Eastern European sources, 1250-1350.