Abstract

This article analyzes a compilation of navigational texts produced by the Teutonic crusading order around 1400, arguing that the recontextualization of geographic knowledge—from local guides to written records—illuminates a spectrum of encounters and exchanges, both violent and collaborative, between indigenous people and Western colonizers in northeastern Europe.

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