The defence of the faith : crusading on the frontiers of Latin Christendom in the late Middle Ages /
"This volume focuses on the complex and often overlooked topic of crusading activities and the crusade movement on the fringes of Latin Christendom in the time frame from approximately 1300 to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It covers a period widely considered as a time of significant...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
| Language Notes: | Seventeen contributions in English, 2 in German. |
| Published: |
Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2024]
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| Series: | Outremer (Turnhout, Belgium) ;
v. 15. |
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| Summary: | "This volume focuses on the complex and often overlooked topic of crusading activities and the crusade movement on the fringes of Latin Christendom in the time frame from approximately 1300 to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It covers a period widely considered as a time of significant political, cultural and religious changes in Europe. A period in which Western Christianity was on the one hand still expanding (vide Lithuania and the western Rus and later the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English expansion in the Americas, Africa and South-East Asia) and on the other hand facing two mighty opponents: the Ottoman Empire and Muscovy. On its eastern and southeastern frontiers, Latin Christian expansion came to a gradual halt -- here, the West was now largely under siege! Alone the political, logistical and ultimately also military feasibility of a large-scale crusade to liberate Jerusalem had now receded into a purely theoretical and practically almost unenforceable far distance. Ranging in scope from the Baltic Sea region to the Balkans and Iberia, this book's nineteen papers explore how these developments influenced the continuation and adaptation of crusading ideas and activities during this later period of crusades."-- |
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| Item Description: | "[Papers from] the international conference Crusading and the Crusader Movement in the Peripheries of the Christian West, 1100-1500, held in Marburg, Germany, on 5-7 October 2017, aimed to trace the manifold manifestations of the peripheral crusades in a comparative perspective spanning the entire European region and (with North Africa) even beyond..... Special thanks are due to the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East-Central Europe in Marburg for providing the conference facilities and for the organisational support for the conference."--Preface and Acknowledgments, page 27. |
| Physical Description: | 407 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9782503588827 2503588824 |