Crusading in the Fifteenth Century

JANOS M. BAK Professor of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, HungaryNANCY BISAHA Lecturer, Vassar College, New York, USAJOHN EDWARDS Senior Research Fellow in Spanish, University of Oxford, UKJOHANNES HELMRATH Professor of Medieval History, Humboldt-University, Berlin, GermanyMARGARET MESERVE Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, FranceNATALIA NOWAKOWSKA ResearcherJACQUES PAVIOT Professor of Medieval History, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, FranceCLAUDIUS SIEBER-LEHMANN Lecturer, Medieval History, University of Basel, SwitzerlandNICOLAS VATIN Director of Research, CNRS, Paris, and Director of Studies, L'École Pratique de Hautes Études (IVe section), France

• List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Housley Italian Humanists and the Problem of the Crusade; M.Meserve Pope Pius II and the Crusade; N.Bisaha The German Reichstage and the Crusade; J.Helmrath Burgundy and the Crusade; J.Paviot A Concealed but Powerful Pattern: Crusading, Nationalism and the Swiss Confederation in the late Middle Ages; C.Sieber-Lehmann Giovanni da Capistrano and the Crusade of 1456; N.Housley Hungary and Crusading in the Fifteenth Century; J.M.Bak Poland and the Crusade in the Reign of King Jan Olbracht, 1492-1501; N.Nowakowska The Hospitallers at Rhodes and the Ottoman Turks, 1480-1522; N.Vatin Reconquista and Crusade in Fifteenth-Century Spain; J.Edwards Index

'What is impressive about this collection is the consistently high standard of scholarly endeavour and originality which should do much to revive interest in this otherwise neglected area of crusade studies.' - Peter W. Edbury, Ecclesiastical History 'No one has done more to place the period between 1300 and 1600 fairly on the map of crusader studies than Norman Housley...This collection is another significant step towards intensifying the very important area of later medieval crusade studies.' - Christoph T. Maier, Crusades