| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-375) and index |
| Notes |
Originally published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing |
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Text in English and Latin |
| Subject |
Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501.
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Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501 |
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Rhodes (Greece) -- History -- Siege, 1480.
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Rhodes (Greece) -- History -- Siege, 1480 -- Sources
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Greece -- Rhodes
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kagay, Donald J
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| ISBN |
9781315587073 |
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1315587076 |
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9781317121114 |
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1317121112 |
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9781317121121 |
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1317121120 |
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9781317121107 |
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1317121104 |
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1472449061 |
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9781472449061 |
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