The Northern Crusades

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Eric Christiansen, a Fellow of New College, Oxford, is the author of
The Origins of Military Power in Spain
and works mainly on Northern history in the Middle Ages. Danish by descent and English by education, he has spent some time in and around the Baltic Sea, and has lectured in London, Copenhagen and Florida. He has translated the histories of Saxo Grammaticus and Dudo of St Quentin.

Acclaim for
The Northern Crusades:

‘This interesting, well-written book fills a major gap in historians’
literature dealing with the late Middle Ages in northern Europe & a
worthy introduction to a complex area of history’ – James Brundage in
the
Journal of Ecclesiastical History

‘The author’s many insights… give the book an importance far
beyond the circle for which it was intended… For Mr Christiansen
history remains an art as well as a science’ – Peter King in
the
Slavonic Review

‘His scholarship is wide, honest and exact… Grounded in rigorous
historical observation, not ideological fervour, military Christianity is
explained with a brilliance which leaves the reader at once dazzled
and sickened… Valuable, learned and attractively written’ —
F. R. H. du Boulay

The author owes more than he can repay to almost everyone else who has written on the subjects of crusades and the North, but in particular to Christopher Tyerman, Peter King, and Peter and Birgit Sawyer; and to the late John Fennell, the late Karol Gorski, and the late Karl Leyser.