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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The German Hospital of the Third Crusade: The Origins of the Teutonic Order -- 2. Expansion and Loss in the Thirteenth Century: The Teutonic Order in the Holy Land -- 3. A New Frontier: The Teutonic Order in Transylvania -- 4. Holy War and Conquest: The Teutonic Order's Crusades in Prussia and Livonia -- 5. Territorial Lords: The Teutonic Order's Rule in the Baltic -- 6. Power and Faith: The Teutonic Order's Fortified Convents -- 7. Crusading in the Wilderness: The Teutonic Order's Wars against Lithuania -- 8. Defeat and Decline in the Fifteenth Century -- 9. The Reformation and the End of the Teutonic Order's Rule in the Baltic -- 10. The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Religious Corporation -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.