Beyond Medieval Europe publishes monographs and edited volumes that evoke medieval Europe’s geographic, cultural, and religious diversity, while highlighting the interconnectivity of the entire region, understood in the broadest sense—from Dublin to Constantinople, Novgorod to Toledo. The individuals who inhabited this expansive territory built cities, cultures, kingdoms, and religions that impacted their locality and the world around them in manifold ways.The series is particularly keen to include studies on traditionally underrepresented subjects in Anglophone scholarship (such as medieval eastern Europe) and to consider submissions from scholars not natively writing in English in an effort to increase the diversity of Anglo- phone publishing on the greater medieval European world. CHRISTIANITY AND WAR IN MEDIEVAL EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA Edited by RADOSŁAW KOTECKI, CARSTEN SELCH JENSEN, and STEPHEN BENNETT CHRISTIANITY AND WAR IN MEDIEVAL EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA CHRISTIANITY AND WAR IN MEDIEVAL EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA This collaborative collection provides fresh perspectives on Christianity and the conduct of war in medieval East Central Europe and Scandina- via, investigating the intersection between religion, culture, and warfare in territories that were only integrated into Christendom in the Central Middle Ages. The contributors analyze cultures that lay outside Charle- magne’s limes and the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire, to consider a region stretching from the Balkans to the south, through Hungary and the Slavic lands (Poland, Bohemia, Rus), to the Baltic coastline with Polabia, Pomerania, Prussia, and Estonia, and reaching into Scandinavia. The volume considers clerics as military leaders and propagandists, the role of Christian ritual and doctrine in warfare, and the adapta- tion and transformation of indigenous military cultures. It uncovers new information on perceptions of war and analyzes how local prac- tices were incorporated into clerical narratives, enabling the reader to achieve a complete understanding of the period. Radosław Kotecki (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz) has pub- lished on religion and war, clerical warfare, and arms-bearing, especially in medieval Poland. Carsten Selch Jensen (University of Copenhagen) has published on the process of Christianization, warfare, and crusading, especially in the Baltic. Stephen Bennett (Queen Mary University of London) is a historian specializing in medieval warfare. He is currently working on a book covering participation in the Third Crusade. Beyond Medieval Europe BME KOTECKI, JENSEN, BENNETT Cover image: The Battle of Legnica 1241:The Beheading of Duke Henry II the Pious and His Soul Carried by Angels to Heaven, Lubin Codex, Vita S. Hedvigis, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, MS Ludwig XI 7 (83.MN.126), fol. 11v, Silesia, 1353; tempera, coloured washes, and ink on parchment. (Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.) Amsterdam University Press AUP.nl