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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461079503321

Autore

Vann Theresa M.

Titolo

Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda : Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480 / / Theresa M. Vann and Donald J. Kagay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, VT : , : Ashgate, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-317-12111-2

1-4724-4906-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Disciplina

949.5/87

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Rhodes (Greece) History Siege, 1480

Rhodes (Greece) History Siege, 1480 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The hospitallers and Rhodes -- Danger from the great debt and the great Turk, 1453-1480 -- The genesis of the descriptio -- Caoursin, Descriptio obsidione Rhodiae -- D'aubusson, Relatio obsidionis Rhodie -- Kay, Description of the siege of Rhodes -- Dupuis, Le siège de Rhodes -- Curte, De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata.

Sommario/riassunto

Guillaume Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege of the Knights in Rhodes in 1480. The Descriptio was the first authorized account of the Order's activities to appear in printed form, and it became one of the best sellers of the 15th century. The publication of the Descriptio not only fed Western Europe's hunger for news about an important Christian victory in the ongoing war with the Turks, it also served to shape public perceptions of the Hospit