Norman Housley

Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199227051
• ISBN-10: 0199227055
• Artikelnr.: 36402196

Autorenporträt

Norman Housley was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1952, and educated there and at Cambridge University. Since 1983 he has worked at the University of Leicester, holding visiting fellowships at Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. Housley has spent his professional life working on the crusades, with the emphasis on crusading in the late Middle Ages. He has published thirteen authored or edited books on the crusades. He has enjoyed a long relationship with Oxford University Press, with whom this is his fifth book.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Underpinnings: antagonisms and allegiances
3: Strategy, mobilization, and control
4: Recruitment and finance
5: Communication
6: Indulgences and the crusade against the Turks
7: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index