The Crusade Of 1456 : Texts and Documentation in Translation / James D. Mixson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mixson, James D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--13th-15th centuries.

Crusades.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Crusade of 1456 offers translations of key sources from an often overlooked yet consequential event in fifteenth-century Europe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

A Note on Names and Places

Introduction

PART ONE Preparations for Crusade, 1453–1456

1. POPE NICHOLAS V, ETSI ECCLESIA CHRISTI

2. AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI, CONSTANTINOPOLITANA CLADES

3. CORRESPONDENCE OF 1455–1456

4. LITURGY FOR TAKING THE CROSS

5. A POPE’S CALL TO PRAYER

6. POPE CALLIXTUS III, OMNIPOTENTIS DEI MISERICORDIA

PART TWO The Earliest Accounts

7. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO TO POPE CALLIXTUS III

8. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO TO POPE CALLIXTUS III

9. JOHN HUNYADI TO DENIS SZÉCSI, ARCHBISHOP OF ESZTERGOM

10. JOHN HUNYADI TO LADISLAUS GARAI, PALATINE OF HUNGARY

11. JOHN HUNYADI TO KING LADISLAUS V

12. JOHN OF TAGLIACOZZO TO A FELLOW FRANCISCAN

13. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO TO POPE CALLIXTUS III

PART THREE News and Propaganda

14. AMBASSADOR OF THE BISHOP OF ŠIBENIK TO POPE CALLIXTUS III

15. CARDINAL JUAN CARVAJAL TO FRANCESCO SFORZA

16. LETTERS OF JOHN GOLDENER

17. LADISLAUS V TO DUKE FRANCESCO SFORZA OF MILAN

18. THE CITY OF NUREMBERG TO THE CITY OF WEISSENBURG

19. POPE CALLIXTUS III TO FRANCESCO SFORZA, DUKE OF MILAN

20. LETTERS OF BERNARD OF KRAIBURG

21. POPE CALLIXTUS III, LETTER TO JUAN SOLER

22. ANONYMOUS (PSEUDO-JOHN OF CAPISTRANO), TO ALL CHRISTIANS

23. ANONYMOUS, LETTER TO HENRY OF ECKENFELT

24. LITURGICAL COMMEMORATIONS OF BELGRADE

PART FOUR John of Tagliacozzo’s Story of the Victory of Belgrade

25. JOHN OF TAGLIACOZZO, THE STORY OF THE VICTORY OF BELGRADE

PART FIVE Memoir and Chronicle

26. THOMAS EBENDORFER, CHRONICLE OF AUSTRIA

27. LAONIKOS CHALKOKONDYLES, THE HISTORIES

28. MICHAEL KRITOPOULOS (KRITOBOULOS), HISTORY OF MEHMED THE CONQUEROR

29. JACOPO PROMONTORIO, RECOLLECTA

30. ÂŞIKPAŞAZADE, MEMORIES AND CHRONICLES OF THE HOUSE OF OSMAN

31. JOHN THUROCZ, CHRONICLE OF THE HUNGARIANS

32. TURSUN BEG, HISTORY OF THE CONQUEROR

33. THE OXFORD ANONYMOUS CHRONICLE

34. KONSTANTIN MIHAILOVIĆ, MEMOIRS

Cast of Characters

General Timeline

Timeline of the Crusade of 1456

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Print version: Mixson, James D. The Crusade Of 1456

ISBN:

9781487532628

OCLC:

1290438324