Medievalists.net » Livonian Crusade http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/12/environmental-crusading-the-teutonic-knights-impact-after-the-baltic-crusades/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/12/environmental-crusading-the-teutonic-knights-impact-after-the-baltic-crusades/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:44:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56803 Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.

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