Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda : Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480 /

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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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vann, Theresa M.
Other Authors: Kagay, Donald J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Latín
Published: London : Routledge, 2016.
Subjects:
Caoursin, Guillaume, > -1501.
Caoursin, Guillaume, > -1501
1480
Rhodes (Greece) > History > Siege, 1480.
Rhodes (Greece) > History > Siege, 1480 > Sources.
Rhodes (Grèce) > Histoire > 1480 (Siège)
Rhodes (Grèce) > Histoire > 1480 (Siège) > Sources.
Greece > Rhodes
History
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The hospitallers and Rhodes
  • 2. Danger from the great debt and the great Turk, 1453-1480
  • 3. The genesis of the descriptio
  • 4. Guillaume Caoursin, Descriptio obsidione Rhodiae
  • 5. Pierre d'Aubusson, Relatio obsidionis Rhodie
  • 6. John Kay, Description of the siege of Rhodes
  • 7. Ademar Dupuis, Le siège de Rhodes
  • 8. Jacobo Curte, De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata.

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