List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Preface -- Introducction -- Crusade historiography in Denmark -- The Golden age -- New trends -- International crusade historiography -- Denmark in the late middle ages and the early modern period -- Crusades at the ends of the earth, 1400-1523 -- Denmark and the crusade in the fourteenth century -- Valdemar IV and the crusade -- Crusades in Scandinavia 1400-1448 -- Papal collectors -- The crusade and the Teutonic Knights -- Crusades against the Hussites -- Denmark and the Hussite crusades -- Christopher of Bavaria and the Crusade -- Christian I and Crusades against the Turk 1448-1481 -- The norwegian problem -- Crusades against the turks and peace in the North -- The fall of Constantinople -- The Northern Frontier -- The collection of funds by Marinus de Fregeno -- The Crusade of Pius II -- From Ancona to the fall of Negroponte 1464-1470 -- Preaching the Crusades -- Spreading the world -- Crusade liturgy -- Letters of indulgence -- Crusading Nuns -- Crusade literature -- Crusades against the Russians -- King Hans and the Crusade against the Turk -- Christian II and the Crusade: Part I -- Chapter two: Greenland and the Crusades -- The forgotten Periphery -- The Skarelings -- The heathens of the Far North -- Crusade in the Atlantic -- The Southern front -- The Northern front -- Danish crusades to India -- Danish crusades in India -- Conclusions: The forgotten crusades -- Crusades and reformation -- Christian II and the Crusade: Part II -- Exile, protestantism, and the Crusade -- The last Danish Crusade? -- Martin Luther and the War against the Turk -- Luther and the Turkish advance -- Secular war and Martyrdom -- Ob Kriesgleute auch in seligem Stande sein Lönnen? -- The war against the Turks -- The right intention -- Apocalyptic thoughts concerning the Turk -- Liturgical war against the Turks -- Conclusions -- Chapter four: Protestant crusades? -- Christian III and war against the Turks -- Paulus Helie and the Lutheran Turks -- Denmark, protestantism, and the Crusade -- Spiritual Warfare against the Turks -- Peder Palladius and the Turks -- Protestantism and religious War, 1559-1648 -- Liturgical Warfare -- The war against the Turks -- The Turks in the North Atlantic -- Pilgrims to the holy sepulchre -- Crusade in literature and print -- Prince Svend -- The order of the Armed Arm -- The knights of Saint John in Scandinavia -- Orders of Chivalry in Denmark -- The order of the Elephant -- The legend and the order of Dannebrog -- Denmark in the thirty years´s war -- The lion of the North -- Explanations for defeat -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Manuscript sources -- Abbreviations -- Literature and sources -- Index.