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.
An assessment of the ambitious programme to refashion crusading to defend Christian Europe and to resist the advance of the Ottoman Turks into the wes...
This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages. It is the outcome of an international network funded by the Leverhulme Trust whose members examined the persistence of crusading activity in the fifteenth century from three viewpoints, goals, agencies and resonances. The crusading fronts considered include the conflict with the Ottoman Turks in the Mediterranean and western Balkans, the Teutonic Order s activities in the Baltic region, and the Hussite crusades. The authors review criticism of crusading propaganda on...
This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages. It is the outcome of an ...
These studies span the period from the origins of the crusading movement in the 11th century until its final active phase during the Renaissance. The book looks at the development of crusades, the conflict with Church, and other forms of religious warfare in Europe in the Middle Ages.
These studies span the period from the origins of the crusading movement in the 11th century until its final active phase during the Renaissance. The ...
