LEADER 02716oam 2200577I 450 001 9910797566303321 005 20230807193056.0 010 $a1-317-12112-0 010 $a1-315-58707-6 010 $a1-317-12111-2 010 $a1-4724-4906-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315587073 035 $a(CKB)3710000000470380 035 $a(EBL)2079235 035 $a(OCoLC)913698370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001542755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16131571 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001542755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13978510 035 $a(PQKB)11773892 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2079235 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11092990 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL824467 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2079235 035 $a(OCoLC)961208830 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000470380 100 $a20180706e20162015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHospitaller piety and crusader propaganda $eGuillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480 /$fTheresa M. Vann and Donald J. Kagay 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (395 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 $a0-7546-3741-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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 sie?ge de Rhodes -- Curte, De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata. 330 $a 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 607 $aRhodes (Greece)$xHistory$ySiege, 1480 607 $aRhodes (Greece)$xHistory$ySiege, 1480$vSources 676 $a949.5/87 700 $aVann$b Theresa M.$01526934 701 $aKagay$b Donald J$0223662 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797566303321 996 $aHospitaller piety and crusader propaganda$93769358 997 $aUNINA