Rus and the Crusades: Unanswered Questions, Tentative Answers, Tantalizing Hints

• In Event: Global Rus: International Connections in the High and Late Middle Ages

Abstract

The descriptions of the Third Crusade in the Kievan Chronicle and the Fourth Crusade in the Novgorodian Chronicle provide important evidence about Rus' relations with the west. This paper will discuss these accounts and their possible parallels with German crusading literature.

Author

• Yulia Mikhailova, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology