02736oam 2200589I 450 991081485050332120240410034020.01-317-12112-01-315-58707-61-317-12111-21-4724-4906-110.4324/9781315587073 (CKB)3710000000470380(EBL)2079235(OCoLC)913698370(SSID)ssj0001542755(PQKBManifestationID)16131571(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001542755(PQKBWorkID)13978510(PQKB)11773892(Au-PeEL)EBL2079235(CaPaEBR)ebr11092990(CaONFJC)MIL824467(MiAaPQ)EBC2079235(OCoLC)961208830(EXLCZ)99371000000047038020180706e20162015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHospitaller piety and crusader propaganda Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480 /Theresa M. Vann and Donald J. Kagay1st ed.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (395 p.)First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-3741-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 HospitRhodes (Greece)HistorySiege, 1480Rhodes (Greece)HistorySiege, 1480Sources949.5/87Vann Theresa M.1602330Kagay Donald J223662FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910814850503321Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda3926272UNINA