Fighting Monks
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Baltic Snake Cults, 21 May 2026
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
by Francis Young.
Cambridge, 432 pp., £25, June 2025,978 1 009 58657 3 Show More
by Francis Young.
Cambridge, 432 pp., £25, June 2025,
The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades
by Aleksander Pluskowski.
Yale, 447 pp., £25, January,978 0 300 27906 1 Show More
by Aleksander Pluskowski.
Yale, 447 pp., £25, January,
“... continent. What should we call this alternative to Christian faith? Neither Francis Young nor Aleksander Pluskowski claim to be fully successful in their thoughtful treatments of the problem. Descriptions used in earlier times were negative, because Christians had come up with them. Eventually the most dangerous label coined for such practices and ... ”
