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Aleksander Pluskowski

Author of The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation

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Aleksander Pluskowski is Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at Reading University.

Works by Aleksander Pluskowski

The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation (2024) 38 copies

The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades (2026) 22 copies

The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: Holy War and Colonisation (2013) 15 copies

Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages (2006) 13 copies

Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages (2007) 11 copies

The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives (2011) 4 copies

Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historical Past (British Archaeological Reports I (2005) 2 copies

Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic: Terra Sacra II (Environmental Histories of the North Atlantic World) (2019) 2 copies

Environment, Colonisation, and the Baltic Crusader States: Terra Sacra I (Environmental Histories of the North Atlantic World) (2019) 1 copy

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The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300 (2004) — Contributor — 47 copies

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Canonical name: Pluskowski, Aleksander
Gender: male
Education: University of Cambridge (Ph.D)
Occupations: professor
archaeologist
Organizations: University of Reading
Awards and honors: Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London
Nationality: UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades (2026-01-28)

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