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File Size: 3533 KB
Print Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Frontline Books; Reprint edition (December 1, 2011)
Publication Date: December 1, 2011
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00FOGFZVE
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This is a great book if you already have an extensive working knowledge of the Teutonic Crusades, but if you're a novice and looking for education you may need to start off with another history before this.
The Teutonic Knights (AKA Knights of the Cross) were a fighting religious order established in the late eleventh century to fight the Saracens in the Holy Land in a conitnuing spirit and letter of the crusades. Based on the mounted nobility of the German-speaking areas of Europe, they quickly rose in power, affluence, and influence. Once the prospect of reconquering the Holy Land practically disappeared, they switched their crusader activities to the "pagans" of the native eastern and northern Europe. Having established themselves militarily and politically in Livonia and in Prussia, their politics very quickly turned them against whom they perceived as a current enemies, be it pagan or Christian (e.g. the Poles). Having been a child in Poland and fed the traditional hatred of (and eventually triumph over) the Order of the Cross, it was attractive to get an independent, tradition-free expertise on the subject. Indeed, raised on Matejko's epic paintings and Sienkiewicz's epic literature, all one could conclude was that the chivalrous and patriotic Poles and Lithuanians triumphed at Grunwald (1410) over the cruel usurpers bearing the black crosses on their white mantles. Mr. Urban sets out to paint a different picture, trying more than once to show the Teutonic Knights as a complex product of religious convictions, austere monkish deprivation of lay pleasures, and stalwart defenders of the Catholic Christendom. If they were cruel and overbearing, so were all others during these bloody centuries of religious and lay strife for the lands, the souls, and the taxes of the native peoples. Frankly, I was not totally convinced. The crusading spirit never appealed to my ideas of fame and honor and seeing Tatars, Turks, and Eastern-European pagans as similarly faulted does little to make the Teutonic Kinights lovable. In the end, they hardly contributed to anything positive in Europe's history - be it in culture, literature, music, or philosophy. As a book, this one does not charm the reader. The author deserves credit for trying to relate the events and the personae involved, but the fragmented character of the political and religious changes make for a boring continuum of names, places, skirmishes, sieges - hardly a material for excitement-charged romance. The only really well covered event is the order's memorable defeat at Grunwald (Tannenberg). When push comes to shove, this history of the Order of the Cross offers little to the lay amateur of historical novels, while as a historical document it seems too popular in character.
It is not much of a stretch to claim that there are very few people alive today that know anything about the history of the Teutonic Knights and their Order State that lasted some three centuries in a fringe area of Baltic Europe. Few books are available in English that attempt to expound.It is a difficult story to tell due to the remoteness of time and place as well as the anachronistic nature of the order that evolved from an Outremer hospital for Germans to a crusading order against the very last pagans of Europe to a theocratic state at odds with its Christian neighbors and eventually with its own "citizens". The order itself was eventually divided into a German, Prussian, and Livonian order under a single Grand Master and were subservient to both Pope and Emperor.Urban concentrates on the highlights of the story and does a good job moving things along without getting too bogged down in details, though there are quite a few memorable anectodes (such as the Samogitians killing their own wives and children rather than surrender). The famous Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) is especially good here with lots of discussion and also enjoyed the narrivatives surrounding the end of the Prussian and Livonian orders. Also interesting was the especially brutal back and forth over Samogitia, the most resilient of the Baltic Pagans.However, at times the book does get muddled, particularly during the Prussian crusades, with a lot of name dropping, and there is a a vagueness to some of the chronology. A good summary or outline of events would have been helpful here. I did not get a good sense of what the heck was happening during the Thirteen Years War, for instance.Nevertheless, this book is recommended as a comprehensive overview of the history of this very fascinating period and group of warrior monks. We also get to see what it was like for the Pagan Last Stand in Europe, with Lithuania as the last holdout.
This was a good description of a portion of history in northern Europe I didn't know. However, the author assumed a level of knowledge of the reader that wasn't there. Names, places and events were mentioned as if I knew all about them. Therefore, I couldn't always follow the story leaving me a confused. And several times I found myself in a new place with no apparent tie to the previous, wondering what the new section had to do with the last one. Overall, I understood the general history, but lost some of the story along the way.
Very informative and has many intriguing surprises for the reader, especially for Lithuanians brought up to believe that the Teutonic Knights were bad and Lithuanians as victims and heroes. This history opens the mind for more study of this complex and less well known period in Europe's history. Curious that no Lithuanan historians are referenced (GudaviÄius or Bumblauskas). Hard to believe he missed them by not knowing of them.
I found the book fascinating. My family is of English, Swedish and German extraction, but they lived in Estonia until the Hitler-Stalin pact forced them to leave. I had no trouble identifying locations in the Baltic, which most people have never heard of. The same is true of Prussia and Poland (where I was born). Having heard a lot about the Teutonic Knights when I was growing up, it was good to learn much more about their history.
Not a period or order I knew much about before reading. The book is enlightening on this military order and its contemporaries and is even exhausting at times in its detail. Very well researched and written, could recommend for casual readers and students.
Can be hard to follow if you are not that knowledgeable about Medieval History.
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