Strategic Alliances and Religious Rivalries : The Teutonic Knights and Lithuanian Dukes
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Result on the web
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Strategic Alliances and Religious Rivalries : The Teutonic Knights and Lithuanian Dukes
Original language description
The paper investigates the complex relationships between the Teutonic Order and the Lithuanian Dukes in the medieval Baltic region. The Teutonic Order, originally established to spread Christianity among pagan tribes, frequently found its religious mission clashing with political ambitions, resulting in protracted conflicts with Poland and Lithuania. The Order’s efforts to expand its territories through military and diplomatic means often overshadowed its spiritual objectives. Key historical events, such as the Order's occupation of Danzig Pomerania and the conversion of the Gediminid dynasty, particularly under the Polish-Lithuanian Union (1385/6), reshaped the regional power dynamics. These developments significantly weakened the Order’s claims of crusading legitimacy. Although the Order projected itself as a bastion of Christian values, political pragmatism frequently dictated its actions, including its interactions with Lithuanian elites, with whom it shared elements of chivalric culture despite ongoing hostilities. The interactions between the Teutonic Knights and the Lithuanian dukes reveal a complex interplay of religious, political, and diplomatic factors. The Order’s professed commitment to Christianity often aligned with territorial ambitions and the need to counterbalance Polish authority. The dynamics surrounding Jogaila’s baptism exemplify the intricate balance between religious ideology and political maneuvering. These relationships, marked by shifting allegiances and strategic calculations, shaped the historical landscape of Central Eastern Europe. The challenges and opportunistic strategies of this era illustrate how faith and governance were deeply intertwined, influencing the region's transformation.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-28415X" target="_blank" >GX19-28415X: From Performativity to Institutionalization: Handling Conflict in the Late Middle Ages (Strategies, Agents, Communication)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Conflict after Compromise : Regulating Tensions in Multi-Confessional Societies in the Fifteenth Century
ISBN
9783954988303
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
76-93
Number of pages of the book
188
Publisher name
Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa
Place of publication
Dresden
UT code for WoS chapter
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