Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505 by Norman Housley - ISBN: 9780199227051
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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.

Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505

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    256 pages

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    6 December 2012

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Summary

The fifty years that followed Mehmed II’s capture of Constantinople in 1453 witnessed a substantial attempt to revive the crusade as the principal military mechanism for defending Christian Europe against the advance of the Ottoman Turks. Norman Housley’s study investigates the origins, character, and significance of this ambitious programme. He locates it against the broad background of crusading history, and assesses the extent to which protagonists and lobbyistsfor a crusade managed to ref…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199227051
ISBN-10:0199227055
Author:Norman Housley
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:6 December 2012
Weight:548g
Dimensions:240mm x 162mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

Overall, it is an impressive contribution to Housleys voluminous body of work on crusading in a Europe undergoing significant political, religious, and cultural transformation.

Overall, it is an impressive contribution to Housleys voluminous body of work on crusading in a Europe undergoing significant political, religious, and cultural transformation. * Scott Rank, European Review of History: Revue europeenne d’histoire *This is a thoroughly well-researched and well-written study, and Housley is to be congratulated on a remarkable achievement. * Peter Edbury, History *Housley has succeeded admirably in producing not only a clear and concise work of synthesis, but one which seeks to put forward new conclusions and reconfigure the way in which historians view the crusading movement in the latter half of the fifteenth century … Housley has once again succeeded in producing a monograph that will no doubt remain the authority on the topic for many years to come. * Mark Whelan, English Historical Review *

About The Author

Norman Housley

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 OxfordUniversity Press, with whom this is his fifth book.

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