The Wendish Crusade, 1147

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The Wendish Crusade, 1147 is written by Mihai Dragnea and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000712443 (ISBN 10) and 9781000712445 (ISBN 13).

The Wendish Crusade of 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, took place at a critical phase in the evolution of crusading rhetoric. The initiators and apologists of the campaign employed rhetorical devices to justify the occupation of a region and conversion of a population under the auspices of a crusade. A detailed examination of the primary sources shows that the justification of a crusade against apostates was not only a German endeavour, or the pope’s will, but a political reality of the twelfth century. Therefore, the attitude of the papacy is shown to be reactive rather than proactive.