Carsten Selch Jensen, Through Words, Not Wounds: History and Theology in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, trans. Henry Bainton. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, 289 pp., 2 maps.
3 Seiten
Open Access
Journal:
Mediaevistik
Band 38
Ausgabe 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
pp. 226 - 228
Zusammenfassung
Konrad Bitschin, town clerk of Kulm (today Chełmno in Poland) in 1432 urged resistance to heretical Hussites by insisting that more glory than blood would flow from defensive injuries incurred. Two centuries earlier, Baltic pagans had preferred words to wounds.
