Scandinavian Baltic Crusades 1100-1500

Name: Scandinavian Baltic Crusades 1100-1500
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ISBN: 9781841769882

ISBN-10: 1841769886

ISBN-13: 9781841769882

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Lindholm, David Nicolle, Angus McBride

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Wielding their swords in the name of their faith, the crusaders originally set out to reclaim Jerusalem and its surrounding territory in the Middle East. Increasingly, however, Eastern Europe and the last remaining bastions of pagan Europe became the targets of their religious zeal. The era officially began in 1147, when the Saxons, Danes, and Poles, responding to Pope Eugene III's call, initiated a crusade against the Wends of the Southern Baltic. This was followed by crusades against the Livonians, Estonians, Finns, Prussians, and Lithuanians. By the 13th century much of the responsibility for sustaining these crusades fell to the Teutonic Knights, a military order formed in the Holy…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 48
Size: 7.23" wide x 9.68" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.330

Angus McBride was born in London in 1931. By the age of 12 he became an orphan and had to leave England following World War II and head to South Africa where he became a fairly well-known and successful artist in Cape Town. In 1961, he moved back to England. By 1975, he began to work with Osprey Publishing's Men-at-Arms series. He is best known for realistic, historical illustrations. Angus McBride died on 15 May 2007.



Introduction


Definitions of a crusade


Participants in the Baltic Crusades


The Baltic at the time of the Crusades


Chronology


The Armies


Equipment of the Scandinavian Crusaders


The difficulties of interpreting sources


1100-1300: shields - swords - helmets - mail armour - the gambeson - the importance of the bow and crossbow - close combat weapons


1300-1400: additional plate reinforcements - the coat-of-plates - helmets: the bascinet, the 'Order helmet' and the 'kettle-hat' - mutual copying of some infantry and cavalry items - shields and bucklers. Weapons: hand-held guns - crossbows - swords - daggers - pole-arms


1400-1500: plate armour - halberds and poleaxes - longswords - crossbows


Military Equipment in the Baltic Lands & Novgorod


1100-1300: Armour - shields - weapons


1300-1500


Strategy & Tactics


Strongpoints and raiding


Climate and terrain - winter warfare


Boats and ships


Fortifications


Siege warfare


Aftermath of the Crusades


Further Reading


Plate Commentaries


Index