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The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and competing cultures book cover

1st Edition

The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century Converging and competing cultures

Edited By Norman Housley Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European society. Just as important, however, was the range of interactions which took place between the three faith communities which were most affected by crusade, namely the Catholic and Orthodox worlds, and the... Read more

Contents

List of figures and maps

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Maps

Preface

1 Introduction

Norman Housley

Conquerors and conquered

2 Crusading in the fifteenth century and its relation to the development of Ottoman dynastic legitimacy, self-image, and the Ottoman consolidation of authority

Nikolay Antov

3 Byzantine refugees as crusade propagandists: the travels of Nicholas Agallon

Jonathan Harris

The crusading response: expressions, dynamics and constraints

4 Dances, dragons and a pagan queen: Sigismund of Luxemburg and the publicizing of the Ottoman Turkish threat

Mark Whelan

5 Alfonso V and the anti-Turkish crusade

Mark Aloisio

6 Papal legates and crusading activity in central Europe: the Hussites and the Ottoman Turks

Antonin Kalous

7 Switching the tracks: Baltic crusades against Russia in the fifteenth century

Anti Selart

Diplomatic and cultural interactions

8 Tīmūr and the ‘Frankish’ powers

Michele Bernardini

9 Venetian attempts at forging an alliance with Persia and the crusade in the fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries

Giorgio Rota

10 Quattrocento Genoa and the legacies of crusading

Steven Epstein

Frontier zones: the Balkans and the Adriatic

11 The key to the gate of Christendom? The strategic importance of Bosnia in the struggle against the Ottomans

Emir Filippović

12 Between two worlds or a world of its own? The eastern Adriatic in the fifteenth century

Oliver Jens Schmitt

13 The Romanian concept of crusade in the fifteenth century

Sergiu Iosipescu

14 Conclusion: transformations of crusading in the long fifteenth century

Alan V. Murray

Index

Biography

Norman Housley is Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK.

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