La cruz negra : Una historia de las cruzadas bálticas

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, Northern Europe was the stage for one of the longest crusades of the Middle Ages, a holy war against the last pagan societies on the continent. Kings, bishops, crusaders, and warrior monks advanced along the coasts and through the forests of the Baltic with both a spiritual and political objective: to spread Christianity through conquest and conversion. At the head of this crusade was the Teutonic Order, one of the most powerful religious and military organizations of the Middle Ages, whose knights in white robes and black crosses built fortresses, founded cities, and forever transformed the economy, religion, and history of Northern Europe. In *The Black Cross*, Aleksander Pluskowski, one of the leading specialists on medieval Baltic Europe, reconstructs, using chronicles, documents, and archaeological findings, the wars that transformed Northern Europe and shows how, centuries later, movements like Nazism attempted to appropriate its legacy.