Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

The #BrothersOfTheSword and their later homies occupied #Estonia from the 13th C, remaining in power through #Danish, #Swedish and #Russian occupations, elevating themselves to Estonian #Knighthood and filling nigh-on all magistratures.
#Crusades #Ristisõjad
#Subjugation #Allutamine
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

An analogous process is not unlikely here: having converted savage pagans into vanquished wretches, the Teutonic crusaders could now look down from their castles and pulpits and refer to their new Livonian Untermensch as Christians.
#Crusades #Ristisõjad
#Christianity #Kristlus
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