- Peter von Dusburg, Chronik des Preußenlandes, trans. and annotated by Klaus Scholz and Dieter Wojtecki, Ausgewählte Quellen zur Geschichte des deutschen Mittelalters 25 (Darmstadt, 1984).
- Hartmut Boockmann, “Geschichtsschreibung des Deutschen Ordens im Mittelalter und Geschichtsschreibung im mittelalterlichen Preußen. Entstehungsbedingungen und Funktionen,” in Literatur und Laienbildung im Spätmittelalter und in der Reformationszeit, ed. Ludger Grenzmann and Karl Stackmann (Stuttgart, 1984), pp. 79–93, p. 82.
- Karol Gorski, “Das Kulmer Domkapital in den Zeiten des Deutschen Ordens,” in Die Geistlichen Ritterorden Europas, ed. Josef Fleckenstein and Manfred Hellmann, Forschungen und Beiträge 26 (Sigmaringen, 1980), pp. 330–37.
- Die Statuten des Deutschen Ordens nach den ältesten Handschriften, ed. Max Perlbach (Halle, 1890), pp. 147–48.
- Statuten, p. 147: “… with greater diligence … than has hitherto been the case.”
- Karl Helm and Walther Ziesemer, Die Literatur des Deutschen Ritterordens (Giessen, 1951), p. 150.
- Nicolaus von Jeroschin, Krônike von Prûzinlant, ed. Ernst Strehlke, Scriptores rerum Prussicarum 1 (Leipzig, 1861), pp. 3–219.
- Ibid., lines 146–68.
- Ibid., lines 158–65: “… and called on me to work on the preparation of a German translation, so that it might explain to all Germans the significance of all God’s wonders and signs which have come about in Prussia according to his goodness.”
- Statuten, Rule 13, p. 41: “We also decree that every Brother who cannot speak Latin should say his Hail Mary and the Creed in German.”
- Statuten, p. 147.
- Jelko Peters, “Zum Begriff: ‘Deutschordensdichtung’. Geschichte und Kritik,” Berichte und Forschungen 3 (1995), 7–38, 30; Arno Mentzel-Reuters, “Literatur im Deutschen Orden 1275–1550,” in Deutsche Literatur und Sprache im östlichen Europa, ed. Carola Gottzmann (Leipzig, 1995), pp. 40–41.
- Helmut Bauer, Peter von Dusburg und die Geschichtsschreibung des Deutschen Ordens im 14. Jahrhundert in Preußen (Berlin, 1935), p. 33.
- “martyres eos fecit moriturus Christus.” St Augustine, Sermo 300, “In solemnitate martyrum Machabaeorum,” PL 38.1377.
- Reproduced in Geschichte der deutschen Kunst 1, ed. Georg Dehio (Berlin, 1930), p. 61.
- “Commentaria in libros Machabaeorum,” in PL 109.1125–1256, col. 1127.
- Penny J. Cole, The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095–1270 (Cambridge, Mass., 1991) pp. 31–32.
- Rudolf Hiestand, “Gaufridus abbas Templi Domini: an Underestimated Figure in the Early History of the Kingdom of Jerusalem,” in The Experience of Crusading 2, ed. Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 48–59.
- Cole, The Preaching of the Crusades, pp. 1–36.
- Ibid., pp. 63–65, 134 and 206.
- Henry of Albano, “De peregrinante civitate Dei: Digressio, qua lamentatur auctor Jerusalem ab infidelibus captam,” PL 204.350, ch.12.
- Elias Bickerman, Der Gott der Makkabäer (Berlin, 1937), p. 37.
- Bernard of Clairvaux, “Epistola XCVIII, De Machabeis,” in S. Bernardi Opera 7, ed. Jean Leclercq and Henri Rochais (Rome, 1974), pp. 248–53.
- Ibid., pp. 249–50; translation by Bruno Scott James, The Letters of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Stroud, 1998), p. 145.
- Carl Erdmann, Die Entstehung des Kreuzzugsgedankens (Stuttgart, 1935), p. 253.
- Nicolaus von Jeroschin, Krônike von Prûzinlant, lines 607–834.
- Gen. 14.10–20; Nicolaus von Jeroschin, Krônike von Prûzinlant, lines 615–64.
- Nicolaus von Jeroschin, Krônike von Prûzinlant, lines 781–834.
- Ibid., lines 825–28: “these battles were continued by the bold exploits of the holy chivalric Order of the German House.”
- Ibid., lines 2004–129.
- Ibid., lines 2040–41, 2046–51: “Sons, gird on your swords and be strong; … for it is better for us to suffer death in battle than to look on wretchedly as our people and our saints are dishonoured.”
- I Macc. 2.50–51 and 64.
- Jeroschin, Krônike, lines 27115–22: “Think of the deeds of your predecessors, the virtuous battles they fought in their day, unstinting in their efforts; and for the sake of your fathers’ inheritance be bold in battle; in this way you will achieve great respect and lasting renown!”
- Ibid., lines 2274–3057.
- Ibid., lines 3058–392.
- Ibid., lines 3188–94: “And so they rose against the enemy and within a short time they slew eleven thousand infantry and, in addition, sixteen hundred knights.”
- Ibid., lines 3202–12.
- Ibid., lines 5871–77.
- Ibid., lines 20011–31.
- Statuten (see above, note 4), pp. 23–25.
- Ibid., p. 25: “We remember too, the praiseworthy battles, honourable in the sight of God, of the knights called the Maccabees, and how bravely they fought the heathen for the sake of their honour and their beliefs.”
- Ibid., p. 25: “The bold successor to these battles is the holy chivalric Order of the Hospital of St Maria of the German House.”
- Das Buch der Makkabäer, ed. K. Helm (Tübingen, 1904).
- Helm and Ziesemer, Die Literatur des Deutschen Ritterordens, pp. 95–100; Jelko Peters, “Zum Begriff ‘Deutschordensdichtung’,” pp. 28–29.
- Christoph T. Maier, Crusade Propaganda and Ideology. Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross (Cambridge, 2000).
- Ibid., p. 54.
- Eudes of Chateauroux, “Sermon 2,1,” in Maier, Crusade Propaganda and Ideology, p. 277.
- Tabulae Ordinis Theutonici, ed. Ernst Strehlke (Berlin, 1869; repr. Toronto, 1975), no. 321, p. 290.
- “Quantum Strenui (13.11.1157),” Veterum Scriptorum at Monumentorum amplissima collectio, ed. Edmond Martène and Ursin Durand (Paris, 1724–33), 2.647.
- Bernard of Clairvaux, “Liber ad milites Templi De laude novae militiae,” in S. Bernardi Opera, 3.213–39.
- “Exordium Hospitalorium,” RHC Oc. 5.399–435.
- Helmold von Bosau, Slawenchronik, ed. Heinz Stoob, Ausgewählte Quellen zur Geschichte des deutschen Mittelalters 19 (Darmstadt, 1963).
- Heinrich von Lettland, Livländische Chronik, ed. Albert Bauer, Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters 24 (Darmstadt, 1975).
- Ibid., p. xxix.
- Willi Bilkins, Die Spuren von Vulgata, Brevier und Missale in der Sprache von Heinrichs Chronicon Livoniae (Riga, 1928); cited in Leonid Arbusow, “Das entlehnte Sprachgut in Heinrichs Chronicon Livoniae,” Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 8 (1950), 100–53, here pp. 108–11.
- Livländische Reimchronik, ed. Leo Meyer (Paderborn, 1976).
- Werner Paravicini, Die Preußenreise des Europäischen Adels, 2 vols to date (Sigmaringen, 1989–), 1.11.
- The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D.Benson (Oxford, 1988) p. 24, lines 53–55.
- Paravicini, Preußenreise, 2.13.
- Axel Ehlers, “The Crusade against Lithuania Reconsidered,” in Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150–1500, ed. Alan V. Murray (Aldershot, 2001), p. 22.
- Ibid., p. 22.
- Ibid., p. 42.
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