The Expansion of the Faith: Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages (Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 14, Band 14) - Hardcover

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Paul Srodecki holds a Ph.D. from Gießen University, Germany, and has also been working as an Assistant Professor, Research Fellow and Lecturer in Medieval and Eastern European History at various academic institutions, including the Universities of Kiel, Germany, and Ostrava, Czechia. He has published several treatises on the bulwark rhetoric and the defensio fidei motif in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, including the book Antemurale Christianitatis : Zur Genese der Bollwerksrhetorik im östlichen Mitteleuropa an der Schwelle vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit (2015). He is currently working on a double volume publication in English focussing on the shield and bulwark topoi as part of the crusading movement. Norbert Kersken holds a PhD from the University of Münster with a dissertation on medieval national historiography. He has been working as a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg and at the University of Gießen, both Germany, as well as at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Together with Przemys?aw Wiszewski, he has published the monograph Neue Nachbarn in der Mitte Europas : Polen und das Reich im Mittelalter (2020).