Hospitaller Piety and Crusader Propaganda (Record no. 5208)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781317121121
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Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 42.99
Form of issue BB
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Original cataloging agency 01
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Subject category code QRAX
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Subject category code 3K
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Subject category code HBLC1
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Subject category code HRAX
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Subject category code DSBD
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Subject category code HIS037010
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Subject category code HIS000000
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Subject category code 949.587
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Theresa M. Vann
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Title Hospitaller Piety and Crusader Propaganda
Remainder of title Guillaume Caoursin's Description of the Ottoman Siege of Rhodes, 1480
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20160917
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 394 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note 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 Hospitallers. Caoursin wrote in a humanistic style, sacrificing military terminology to appeal to an educated audience; within a few years, however, his Latin text became the basis for vernacular versions, which also circulated widely. Modern historians recognize the contributions that the Ottoman siege of Rhodes in 1480 made in the development of military technology, particularly the science of fortifications. This book is the first complete modern Latin edition with an English translation of the Descriptio obsidionis Rhodiae. Two other published eyewitness accounts, Pierre D’Aubusson’s Relatio obsidionis Rhodie and Jacomo Curte’s De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata, also appear in modern Latin edition and English translation. This book also includes John Kay’s Description of the Siege of Rhodes and an English translation of Ademar Dupuis’ Le siège de Rhodes. The lengthy introductory chapters by Theresa Vann place the Ottoman siege of Rhodes in 1480 within the context of Mehmed II’s expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean after he captured Constantinople in 1453. They then examine the development of an official message, or propaganda, as an essential tool for the Hospitallers to raise money in Europe to defend Rhodes, a process that is traced through the chancery’s official communications describing the aftermath of Constantinople and the Ottoman
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Donald J. Kagay
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