Holy War in the Baltic and the Battle of Lyndanise 1219 / / Carsten Selch Jensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
• VerfasserIn: Jensen, Carsten Selch,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: War and Conflict in Premodern Societies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction HOLY WAR IN THE BALTIC AND THE BATTLE OF LYNDANISE 1219 --; Chapter 1 FOREIGN SHORES—FOREIGN PEOPLE THE MEDIEVAL BALTIC AND ITS PEOPLE --; Chapter 2 FIGHTING GOD’S WAR PAPAL CRUSADING POLITICS IN THE BALTIC FROM THE EARLY 1100s UNTIL THE EARLY 1200s --; Chapter 3 A SOCIETY ORGANIZED FOR WAR DENMARK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY --; Chapter 4 COMPETING POWERS THE GERMAN MISSION IN LIVONIA AND THE INITIAL QUEST FOR ESTONIA --; Chapter 5 WAGING WAR IN THE WILDERNESS WESTERN MILITARY TRADITIONS MEET BALTIC TRADITIONS --; Chapter 6 THE DANISH EXPEDITION TO ESTONIA IN 1219 AND THE BATTLE OF LYNDANISE --; Chapter 7 CONQUERING HEARTS AND MINDS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE --; Conclusion A PENNY IN THE BOX HOW ESTONIA CAME TO SAVE DENMARK --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781802701913; 9783111332352
• DOI: 10.1515/9781802701913?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carsten Selch Jensen.

In June 1219 Danish crusaders fought a vicious battle against local pagan warriors at the place in northern Estonia where Tallinn now lies. The battle—known then as the Battle of Lyndanise—was a narrow victory for the crusaders and eventually turned out to be a pivotal event in the national histories of both Denmark and Estonia as a milestone in the overall military conquest of the entire region by (mostly) western military powers. The main scope of this book is to present a study of this military conquest of Estonia around 1200 with a special focus on the Scandinavian involvement, enabling us to better understand the intense political, military, and religious changes that came to influence the region and its many people from the early high medieval period onwards.