Norman Housley, "Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505"
English | ISBN: 0199227055 | 2012 | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | ISBN: 0199227055 | 2012 | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
An assessment of the ambitious programme to refashion crusading to defend Christian Europe and to resist the advance of the Ottoman Turks into the western Balkans and central Mediterranean in the fifty years following Sultan Mehmed II's capture of Constantinople in 1453.