Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505

ISBN-13: 9780199227051 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

Norman Housley

Opis

An assessment of the ambitious programme to refashion crusading to defend Christian Europe and to resist the advance of the Ottoman Turks into the western Balkans and central Mediterranean in the fifty years following Sultan Mehmed II's capture of Constantinople in 1453.

Recenzje

Housley has succeeded admirably in producing not only a clear and concise work of synthesis, but one which seeks to put forward new conclusions and reconfigure the way in which historians view the crusading movement in the latter half of the fifteenth century ... Housley has once again succeeded in producing a monograph that will no doubt remain the authority on the topic for many years to come.

O autorze

Norman Housley was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1952, and educated there and at Cambridge University. Since 1983 he has worked at the University of Leicester, holding visiting fellowships at Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. Housley has spent his professional life working on the crusades, with the emphasis on crusading in the late Middle Ages. He has published thirteen authored or edited books on the crusades. He has enjoyed a long relationship with Oxford University Press, with whom this is his fifth book.