Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda : Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480 / Theresa M. Vann and Donald J. Kagay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vann, Theresa M., author.

Contributor:

Kagay, Donald J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501.

Caoursin, Guillaume.

Rhodes (Greece)--History--Siege, 1480.

Rhodes (Greece).

Rhodes (Greece)--History--Siege, 1480--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Guillaume Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege of the Knights in Rhodes in 1480. The Descriptio was the first authorized account of the Order's activities to appear in printed form, and it became one of the best sellers of the 15th century. The publication of the Descriptio not only fed Western Europe's hunger for news about an important Christian victory in the ongoing war with the Turks, it also served to shape public perceptions of the Hospit

Contents:

The hospitallers and Rhodes

Danger from the great debt and the great Turk, 1453-1480

The genesis of the descriptio

Caoursin, Descriptio obsidione Rhodiae

D'aubusson, Relatio obsidionis Rhodie

Kay, Description of the siege of Rhodes

Dupuis, Le siège de Rhodes

Curte, De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata.

Notes:

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-12112-0

1-315-58707-6

1-317-12111-2

1-4724-4906-1

9781315587073

OCLC:

913698370