Chivalry (derived through the French cheval from the Latin caballus) as an institution is to be considered from three points of view: the military, the social, and the religious. Military.—In the military sense, chivalry was the heavy cavalry of the Middle Ages which constituted the chief ...
The northern crusades: the Baltic and the Catholic frontier, 1100-1525 This is where the great North Russian Plain stops.
This preposterous-poisonous-pack (all 2 of them) who spend most of their time and ink deriding Thomistically Trained (True) priests - not sparing (God help us) even the *Angelic Doctor himself!!! - had, and have been privately offered more than once to view important historical evidence ...
In the field of religion we like to suggest that authentic religion is a two〆dged sword. On the one hand, religion has the duty to "comfort the afflicted" while on the other hand, religion must "afflict the comfortable." Those who comfort the afflicted are regarded as "saints" because...
The “Sachsenspiegel” (compilation of Saxon law, c. 1230) caused this view to prevail. At the time of the double election of Otto and Philip the policy pursued by the German princes was a purely selfish one. The energetic Innocent III, who was then pope, claimed the right of deciding ...
The Northern Crusades: The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier 1100-1525doi:10.2307/1987689BEELER, JOHNMilitary Affairs
Eric Christensen. The Northern Crusades. The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. xii, 273 pp. cloth $25.00; paper $10.95.BioassayEcotoxicity testingGrowth inhibitionMicro-organismMulti-species...