Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505 estimating cost social conditions

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Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505 estimating cost social conditionsThe fifty years that followed Mehmed II's capture of Constantinople in 1453 witnessed a substantial attempt to revive the crusade as the principal military mechanism for defending Christian Europe against the advance of the Ottoman Turks. Norman Housley's study investigates the origins, character, and significance of this ambitious programme. He locates it against the broad background of crusading history, and assesses the extent to which protagonists