Can I read The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century. Converging and Competing Cultures on EtoBox?

The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century. Converging and Competing Cultures by Norman Housley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century. Converging and Competing Cultures about?

Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of illustrations 8 Notes on contributors 9 Preface 13 List of abbreviations 14 Maps 15 1 Introduction 20 Part I Conquerors and conquered 32 2 Crusading in the fifteenth century and its relation to the development of Ottoman dynastic legitimacy, self-image and the Ottoman consolidation of authority 34 3 Byzantine refugees as crusade propagandists: the travels of Nicholas Agallon 53 Part II The crusading response: expressions, dynamics and constraints 66 4 Dances, dragons and a pagan queen: Sigismund of Luxemburg and the publicizing of the Ottoman Turkish threat 68 5 Alfonso V and the anti-Turkish crusade 83 6 Papal legates and crusading activity in central Europe: the Hussites and the Ottoman Turks 94 7 Switching the tracks: Baltic crusades against Russia in the fifteenth century 109 Part III Diplomatic and cultural interactions 126 8 Tīmūr and the ‘Frankish’ powers 128 9 Venetian attempts at forging an alliance with Persia and the crusade in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries 139 10 Quattrocento Genoa and the legacies of crusading 152 Part IV Frontier zones: the Balkans and the Adriatic 168 11 The

Who reads The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century. Converging and Competing Cultures?

Author

Norman Housley

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction