Crusading in the fifteenth century : message and impact / edited by Norman Housley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Housley, Norman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--13th-15th centuries.

Crusades.

Social conditions.

Europe--Social conditions--15th century.

Europe.

Europe--History--15th century.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baskingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

This collection of essays by European and American scholars addresses the changing nature and appeal of crusading during the period which extended from the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 to the battle of Mohacs in 1526. Contributors focus on two key aspects of the subject. One is developments in the crusading message and the language in which it was framed. These were brought about partly by the appearance of new enemies, above all the Ottoman Turks, and partly by shifting religious values and innovative currents of thought within Catholic Europe. The other aspect is the wide range of responses which the papacy's repeated calls to holy war encountered in a Christian community which was increasingly heterogeneous in character. This collection represents a substantial contribution to the study of the Later Crusades and of Renaissance Europe.

Contents:

2 Italian Humanists and the Problem of the Crusade / Margaret Meserve 13

3 Pope Pius II and the Crusade / Nancy Bisaha 39

4 The German Reichstage and the Crusade / Johannes Helmrath 53

5 Burgundy and the Crusade / Jacques Paviot 70

6 An Obscure but Powerful Pattern: Crusading, Nationalism and the Swiss Confederation in the Late Middle Ages / Claudius Sieber-Lehmann 81

7 Giovanni da Capistrano and the Crusade of 1456 / Norman Housley 94

8 Hungary and Crusading in the Fifteenth Century / Janos M. Bak 116

9 Poland and the Crusade in the Reign of King Jan Olbracht, 1492-1501 / Natalia Nowakowska 128

10 The Hospitallers at Rhodes and the Ottoman Turks, 1480-1522 / Nicolas Vatin 148

11 Reconquista and Crusade in Fifteenth-Century Spain / John Edwards 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-237) and index.

ISBN:

1403902836

OCLC:

55518414