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The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stopped

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017
The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stopped This paper analyzes the construction, features, and significance of the Marienwerder castle, and its capture by Lithuanian forces in 1384.
Vytenis Almonaitis
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The Tatar Topic in the Correspondence of Officials of the Teutonic Order, 1431–1432

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2020
Research objectives: This article offers annotated editions of nine letters from the archive of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order written between the spring of 1431 and the summer of 1432 concerning the Tatars.
Polekhov S.V., Naumov N.N.
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Poland after the Thirteen Years’ War (1454–1466): The Scope of Political and Structural Changes

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2021
The war of Poland with the Teutonic Knights Order in the years 1454–1466, ended with the peace of Toruń 1466, had a significant impact on the increase in the importance of Poland’s position in Europe, which was reflected in the subordination of the ...
Dariusz Makiłła
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Misterium Caritatis: Christian Values in the Polish School of the Law of Nations (Ius Gentium) [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana
The Polish medieval theory of the law of nations (ius gentium) was born in the nation’s conflict with the Order of Teutonic Knights, which pursued a bloody military expansion into Eastern Europe under the pretext of converting pagans, invoking the ...
Wanda Bajor
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Morality Tale or Attempt at Reportage? Yet Another Look at Peter von Dusburg’s Description of the Prussian Pagan Religion

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2023
The story by the Teutonic Order chronicler Peter von Dusburg about the Prussian pagan priest Criwe and his sanctuary Romowe has for centuries provoked historiographical arguments about the nature of the Baltic pagan religion and the interpretation of ...
Rasa Mažeika
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The Warmian Dietine in the 16th–18th Centuries

Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 2009
Warmia, within the Teutonic State, functioned as a separate judicial area administered by the “Landrichter” as well as four to twelve elected land assessors (“Landschöffen”) originating from nobility, freemen (“Freie”) and village administrators.
Danuta Bogdan
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Vokiečių ordino karinė komunikacija Žemaitijos pajūriu 1519–1521 metais | The Movement of the Army of the Teutonic Order along the Žemaitijan Coastal Strip, 1519–1521

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis
Although the section of the Baltic seashore near Palanga was ceded to Lithuania under the Treaty of Melno, it remained strategically important to the Teutonic Order. From the Middle Ages, the coastal strip of the starostwo of Žemaitija in the Grand Duchy
Dainius Elertas
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Våld och Visioner. Möten med högre makter i Peter de Dusburgs Cronica Terre Prussie

Collegium Medievale, 2019
The Cronica Terre Prussie by Peter de Dusburg (c. 1330) chronicles the expansion of the Teutonic Order into Prussia and the Baltic region. Predominantly occupied with armed conflict, the work also contains a considerable number of accounts of miracles ...
Magnus Borg
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‘Power to the Family.’ The Military Obligations of Old Prussians in Warmia in the Context of their Family Ties (13th and 14th Centuries)

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2018
The article deals with the main types of social and military relations between the indigenous people and the new landlords that formed in the times of building and reinforcing the rule of the Teutonic Order in Warmia, a part of Prussia.
Alicja Dobrosielska
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Mendicant Orders in Medieval Prussia and Livonia: Pastoral Activities in Towns

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2016
The paper presents the general conditions in which the pastoral work of mendicant orders was conducted in the domains of the Teutonic Order and particular bishoprics in Prussia and Livonia, at the same time indicating similarities and differences in the ...
Rafał Kubicki
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