The Ecology of Crusading: Investigating the Environmental Impact of Holy War and Colonisation at the Frontiers of Medieval Europe

The Teutonic crusade in Prussia: reconstruction of a medieval fortified settlement complex at Unisław

“…In subsequent years, the Knights subjugated new areas of pagan Prussia, reinforcing their power through the construction of numerous timber-and-earth strongholds and the first towns in the region (Czaja 2000; Wasik 2016a). These strongholds were not simply a continuation of local early medieval fortresses, as they had other functions related to the implementation of colonisation and a new social system (Pluskowski et al 2011a & b). The strongholds were founded either on older—often damaged or abandoned—castles, or in new, previously unoccupied locations.…”

Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside: a research agenda

“…Archaeologists working on the Baltics, Southern Spain and the Eastern Mediterranean, for example, have employed excavations, paleoenvironmental sources and laser techniques that would help us reconstruct even the oldest commodity frontiers. 35 If these sources can be digitally connected and automated data-mining processes applied to them, it becomes feasible to extract a wide range of data from very disparate sources in different languages. What is more, semantic technology can help us create structured data sets from immense collections of fuzzy data.…”

Reconquista y cruzada. Un balance historiográfico doce años después (2000-2012)

“…logía 105 y arte) cuentan con buena salud en cada uno de los diversos frentes cruzados. En este campo, uno de los proyectos más interesantes es «Ecology of the Crusades», que pretende investigar el impacto real,-a nivel ecológico y territorial-de la lucha cruzada, originalmente en el escenario báltico 106 .…”