Moral Agency in Crusade and Colonization: Anselm of Havelberg and the Wendish Crusade of 1147
Pegatha Taylor
the summer of 1147, an army Saxons, Danes, Poles, and Bohemians invaded area which roughly corresponds to present German state MecklenburgVorpommern. The local inhabitants enemy were Slavs, who mostly settled along banks rivers flowing into Baltic. They pagan, politically autonomous, closely related ethnically linguistically their Christian neighbours south-east, Poles.1 invaders had chosen go on this campaign rather than a crusade Holy Land; while soldiers from various western European realms getting ready in 1146-7 travel Middle East defend crusader states against Turks, these central northern obtained permission Pope Eugenius III (1145-53) fulfil vow take part Second Crusade (1146-8) by attacking tribes, known collectively as Wends. Their declared goal, however, was not only expel pagan enemies territory, but also convert them Christianity. Wendish Crusade, it has become known, encompassed both military religious mission.
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