Carsten Selch Jensen, Through Words, Not Wounds: History and Theology in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia , trans. Henry Bainton. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, 289 pp., 2 maps.

Thomas A. Fudge

doi:10.3726/med.2025.01.50

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Carsten Selch Jensen, Through Words, Not Wounds: History and Theology in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia , trans. Henry Bainton. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, 289 pp., 2 maps.

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Key Points

Findings highlight the preference for glory in historical narratives over violent confrontation,
Key evidence is rooted in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia and the perspective of Baltic pagans.
Analysis focuses on the historical context of the Crusades and theological sentiments recorded in literature.
The work emphasizes the importance of documenting historical events to understand cultural resistance to heresy.

Implication

Analysis reveals glory over blood in the Crusades, suggesting historical narratives shaped resistance to heresy.

Abstract

Konrad Bitschin, town clerk of Kulm (today Chełmno in Poland) in 1432 urged resistance to heretical Hussites by insisting that more glory than blood would flow from defensive injuries incurred. Two centuries earlier, Baltic pagans had preferred words to wounds.

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Carsten Selch Jensen, Through Words, Not Wounds: History and Theology in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia , trans. Henry Bainton. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, 289 pp., 2 maps.

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Carsten Selch Jensen, Through Words, Not Wounds: History and Theology in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia , trans. Henry Bainton. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, 289 pp., 2 maps.

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