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Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505

This 126000-word, 242-page book develops discoveries made, approaches developed and insights gained by Housley over two decades, and was the prime focus of his research from 2008 to 2012. The argument draws on close analysis of sources from diverse genres (eg: letters, decrees, narratives, memoirs, financial accounts, treatises and polemical works). He advocates a revisionist agenda for evaluating the crusade in the period following 1453. His analysis demonstrates that future research must move away from a sterile emphasis on military outcomes, towards an appreciation of the ways in which energetic promotion of crusading shaped Europe’s political, religious and economic life.