Reconfiguring the fifteenth-century crusade / Norman Housley, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Housley, Norman, editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--13th-15th centuries--Congresses.

Crusades.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 344 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2: Toward a Global Crusade? The Papacy and the Non-Latin World in the Fifteenth Century; The Sources, the Methods and Their Limits; The First Decades: A Byzantine Horizon, 1400-1430; Openings Toward the Eastern Worlds, 1430-1460; The Tightening of Alliances, 1460-1480; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 3: Crusade and Reform, 1414-1449: Allies or Rivals?; Notes; Chapter 4: Crusading against Christians in the Fifteenth Century: Doubts and Debates; The Crusade against the Kingdom of Naples

The Crusades against the HussitesThe Second Hussite War; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: The Military Orders and Crusading in the Fifteenth Century: Perception and Influence; Notes; Chapter 6: Venice and the Ottoman Threat, 1381-1453; Diplomacy: Venice's Preferred Tool of Dispute Resolution; The Venetian Response to Chaos: Expansion; Defense on Land: The Ottomans as Nuisance; "In Mari Semper Sumus in Guerra Cum Turchis"134; In Conclusion: Peace or Total War; Notes; Chapter 7: Bessarion's Orations against the Turks and Crusade Propaganda at the Gro€e Christentag of Regensburg (1471)

Bessarion and the Veneto-Burgundian NetworkBessarion and the Great Diet of Christendom in 1471; Notes; Chapter 8: Hunyadi's Campaign of 1448 and the Second Battle of Kosovo Polje (October 17-20); Notes; Chapter 9: Reactions to the Fall of Constantinople and the Concept of Human Rights; Notes; Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Future Study of Crusading in the Fifteenth Century; Notes; Index

Notes:

"The project title was 'Reconfinguring the Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Goals, Agencies and Resonances.' .. Particularly telling evidence .. was afforded by Daniel Baloup's program .. The volumes of essays that resulted from Baloup's series of conferences have been appearing at intervals .." -- p. 1

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Reconfiguring the fifteenth-century crusade.

ISBN:

9781137462800

1137462809

OCLC:

964383715

Publisher Number:

99972042631