Reconfiguring the fifteenth-century crusade. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Norman Housley, editor.
• Editors: Housley, Norman
• 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 Große 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (350 pages)
• Subjects: 909.4; History; Crusades -- 13th-15th centuries; HISTORY -- World; Crusades; Kreuzzüge; History -- Military -- General; Religion -- History; Military history; History of religion; Military history; History -- Europe -- General; European history; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137462817; 1137462817
• Related ISBNs: 9781137462800; 1137462809
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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