Welcome to the blog for the Ecology of Crusading project! This is a major international research programme funded by the European Research Council, running from October 2010-2014. The aim of the project is to investigate the environmental transformations in the Baltic region associated with the crusades in the 13th century AD and the process of conquest, colonisation and religious conversion that accompanied them. The project will employ cutting-edge archaeological science and historical studies to provide a holistic, integrated perspective on a fundamental chapter in European history. The website has just been launched here: www.ecologyofcrusading.com
This blog will contain various updates as the project unfolds - details of seminars, conferences, events, fieldwork, discoveries and so on. Please check back here regularly for more information. You can also follow the project on twitter and facebook, linked from the main website.
That's pretty much it for now. We're currently planning the schedule for sampling and excavation for the first phase of the project due to start in 2011. However, if you're in London, Reading or York you can catch some of our early seminars which I'll put up here in due course, but which are already listed on the main website.
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