"Originally published in German by Bo˜hlau in 2007: Livland und die Rus' im 13. Jahrhunder."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Religious Frontier in Eastern Europe in the Twelfth Century -- 2 The Beginning of the Crusades in Livonia and their Impact on Rus’ -- 3 Livonia and Rus’ in the 1230s and 1240s -- 4 Rus’ in the Catholic Sources from the First Half of the Thirteenth Century -- 5 Relations between Rus’ and Livonia under Archbishop Albert Suerbeer (1245–73) -- 6 Livonia and Rus’, 1260–1330 -- 7 Russian Principalities in the Eastern European Sources, 1250–1350 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

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This monograph by Anti Selart is the first comprehensive study available in English on the relations between northern crusaders and Rus'. Selart re-examines the central issues of this crucial period of establishing the medieval relations of the Catholic and Orthodox worlds like the Battle on the Ice (1242) and the role of Alexander Nevsky using the relevant source material of both “sides”. He also considers the wide context of the history of crusading and the whole Eastern and Northern Europe from Hungary and Poland to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in 1180-1330. This monograph contests the existence of the constitutive religious conflict and extensive aggressive strategies in the region – the ideas which had played a central role in modern historiography and ideology.