Hospitaller piety and crusader propaganda : Guillaume Caoursin's description of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, 1480 /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Latin |
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| 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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| Item Description: | Originally published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-375) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315587073 1315587076 9781317121114 1317121112 9781317121121 1317121120 9781317121107 1317121104 1472449061 9781472449061 |