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Teutonic Knight - 1190-1561 (Paperback)
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Teutonic Knight - 1190-1561 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
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Osprey's study of Teutonic Knights from 1190 to 1561. The Military
Order of Teutonic Knights was one of the three most famous
Crusading Orders; the others being the Templars and the
Hospitallers. Like these two, the Teutonic Knights initially
focused upon the preservation of the Crusader States in the Middle
East. Wielding their swords in the name of their faith, the
crusading knights set out to reclaim Jerusalem. Unlike the Templars
they survived the crises of identity and purpose which followed the
loss of the last Crusader mainland enclaves in the late thirteenth
century and, like the Hospitallers, they managed to create a new
purpose - and a new field of combat - for themselves. Whereas the
Hospitallers focused their energies in the eastern Mediterranean
battling against Muslim armies, the Teutonic Knights shifted their
efforts to the Baltic, to the so-called Northern Crusades against
pagan Prussians and Lithuanians and, to a lesser extent, against
Orthodox Christian Russia. As a result the Order of Teutonic
Knights became a significant power, not only in the Baltic but in
north-central Europe as a whole. Paradoxically, however, it was
their fellow Catholic Christian Polish neighbours who became their
most dangerous foes, breaking the Order's power in the
mid-fifteenth century. The Teutonic Knights lingered on in what are
now Estonia and Latvia for another century, but this was little
more than a feeble afterglow. This title will examine this
fascinating military and religious order in detail, revealing the
colourful history of the crusades within Europe itself which
inexorably changed the future of the continent.
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