Crusading and the Ottoman threat, 1453-1505 / Norman Housley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Housley, Norman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--13th-15th centuries.

Crusades.

Europe--History--15th century.

Europe.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Recent historiography; 1.2 The sources; 1.3 The trajectory of events; 1.4 The structure of the analysis; 2. Underpinnings: antagonisms and allegiances; 2.1 Christianity and Islam: the Turks; 2.2 The Holy Land and the Orthodox Christians; 2.3 Catholic Europe: the universal and the particular; 2.4 Antemurale states; 2.5 Item tu Sixte canis, iam amicus Turcorum: criticism, challenges, and alternatives to papal authority; 3. Strategy, mobilization, and control; 3.1 Strategic perceptions and planning

3.2 The papal curia: memory and methods3.3 The search for unity: crusading congresses and diets; 3.4 Synergizing self-interest: crusading leagues and subsidies; 3.5 Unum tandem remedium: leading from the front; 4. Recruitment and finance; 4.1 Crucesignati and fifteenth-century crusading; 4.2 Volunteerism and military service in Hungary; 4.3 Pius II, Perault, and volunteer service; 4.4 Crusade taxation and the funding shortfall; 5. Communication; 5.1 The Franciscan Observants and preaching: the pattern of involvement

5.2 The Franciscan Observants and preaching: individuals, techniques, and themes5.3 Orations; 5.4 Printing; 6. Indulgences and the crusade against the Turks; 6.1 Ea bulla, quam cruciatam dicimus: the character and administration of crusade indulgences; 6.2 Popularity and returns; 6.3 Control and retention; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-65833-X

0-19-163990-7

OCLC:

922971458