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Title: 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.

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.

by Thomas A. Fudge (Author)
3 Pages
Open Access
Journal: Mediaevistik Volume 38 Issue 1 Publication Year 2025 pp. 226 - 228

Summary

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.

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Thomas A. Fudge (Author)

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Title: 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.