APPENDIX: Relics Kept in Teutonic Commanderies in Prussia, 14th-16th C (original) (raw)
The file is a draft appendix of my PhD thesis that tabulates the relics held in the commanderies of the Teutonic Order as recorded in the 'Gross Aemterburch des Deutschen Ordens' and the 'Marienburger Aemterbuch'. The appendix shows the variety of relics that were kept in these castles by the Order in the late medieval period, and helps to postulate the role played by relics on the later crusades in Lithuania, known as the 'Reisen'.
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