How pagan medieval kingdoms were conquered and became Christian with Carsten Selch Jensen and Stephen Bennett

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Interview Timeline

Carsten Selch Jensen has published many works on the process of Christianization, warfare, and crusading, especially in the Baltic. Stephen Bennett is a historian specializing in medieval warfare. I spoke to the two of them about Christian and pagan kingdoms and their wars in the tenth century and on. Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia (Arc Humanities Press, 2021)

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1:08 – Carsten and Stephen talks about how he got into this subject.

4:07 – Stephen and Carsten talks about Lithuanian history and crusading knights. (Note: I meant to say the Teutonic Knights, not the Templars, were seen as bad guys by my grandparents. However I was taught that all those religious knights were troublesome to Lithuanians.)

6:46 – Carsten detail the areas and time periods they cover.

8:16 – Stephen talks about the term warrior clerics.

12:23 – Carsten talks about how warrior clerics managed their military activities.

16:41 – Carsten and Stephen talk about borders and fighting in this area and time.

22:30 – Carsten talks about Scandinavian conquests. Stephen goes into details about warrior clerics.

26:54 – Carsten talks about the difference in weapons between these kingdoms.

29:18 – Carsten talks about the major cities and forts in the non-Christian kingdoms.

34:34 – Carsten talks about the experience of conquest in Denmark.

38:46 – They discuss the pagan religions of the newly Christianized kingdoms. Stephen talks about the Mongols.

42:45 – Carsten talks about different Christian traditions.

51:31 – Carsten talks about the king versus the religious leaders in cultures.

54:26 – They discuss religious leaders who fought.

57:46 – They talk about how the research was done.

1:00:11 – Carsten talks about not realizing how many local stories there were about newly Christian kingdoms.

1:02:05 – They talk about the written historical records.

1:04:37 – They talk about how important the histories are to modern societies.

1:11:47 – Carsten cane be found online at the University of Copenhagen. Stephen can be found on twitter @stephen876

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/31RZnit

https://arc-humanities.org/products/c-67104-10597-68-8253/

https://teol.ku.dk/english/dept/akh/staff/?pure=en/persons/161221

https://qmul.academia.edu/StephenBennett

https://twitter.com/stephen876

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Guests: Carsten Selch Jensen and Stephen Bennett

Host: Cris Alvarez

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