Crusades against the Hussites as a political tool in Sigismund of Luxembourg’s diplomacy towards the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and the Polish-Lithuanian Union
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Sigismund of Luxemburg sought to draw the Order of the Teutonic Knights and the Polish-Lithuanian Union into his policy against Hussite Bohemia, but, for many reasons, he did not manage to achieve this. The aim of this study is to identify these reasons by means of an analysis of the tools that Sigismund had at his disposal to further this intention, namely, dispatches, political correspondence, truces and treaties, personal meetings, etc. The topic of this study fits into the context of the general question of whether the idea of crusades was alive in the late Middle Ages or whether it had waned and become only a tool used in diplomacy and propaganda. |