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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Latin, French, English, Middle (1100-1500) Original language: Latin Publisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, maps, facsimilesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472449061
  • 1472449061
  • 9780754637417
  • 0754637417
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda : Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480.DDC classification:
  • 949.5/87 23
LOC classification:
  • DF901.R42 V36 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 si�ege de Rhodes -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 si�ege de Rhodes -- Curte, De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata.

In English, with translations of Latin texts into English, French, and Middle English.

Print version record.

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.

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