Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505

by Norman Housley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199227055
• ISBN13: 9780199227051
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"