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

• Autore: Vann Theresa M.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Disciplina: 949.5/87
• Soggetto geografico: Rhodes (Greece) History Siege, 1480; Rhodes (Greece) History Siege, 1480 Sources
• Altri autori: KagayDonald J
• Note generali: First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda
• ISBN: 1-317-12112-0; 1-315-58707-6; 1-317-12111-2; 1-4724-4906-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797566303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II