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Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on October 27, 2015
The Maid of Orleans and Crusading: reflections on a colloquium La France et l’Orient au temps de Jeanne d’Arc. Idéaux pacifiques et réalités guerrières, Rouen, 29 May 2015 Meeting in the splendid surroundings of the Salle des États in Rouen’s recently opened ‘Historial Jeanne d’Arc’, the speakers at this colloquium gave their attention to a […]
Posted in Crusades, Joan of Arc |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on May 6, 2015
A tale of three cities: Constantinople 1453, Belgrade 1456, Olomouc 1468 In my essay ‘Giovanni da Capistrano and the crusade of 1456’, published in 2004 in Crusading in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Norman Housley, I briefly (pp. 112-13) made reference to a fresco in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Olomouc. The church, which […]
Posted in Catholic orders and reform, Crusades, East and Central Europe, Hussites & Bohemia, Papacy, The Crusades |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on March 2, 2015
English charity and the Turkish threat The Henry Smith charity When a friend of mine was at university he benefited from a charity established in his Wiltshire village for ‘indigent scholars’. He didn’t get much money, but it was typical of the thousands of similar bequests in towns and villages scattered across the country. […]
Posted in Crusades, Turkish threat in 17th century |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on February 5, 2015
Wolf Hall, Thomas More and the Turks One of the joys of the BBC’S outstanding dramatization of ‘Wolf Hall’ is its historical accuracy. While each programme is being broadcast, Tudor historians ecstatically tweet away pointing out how much the series is getting right – though there are minor slips like showing wisteria, which apparently was […]
Posted in Catholic orders and reform, Crusades, Uncategorized |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on January 7, 2015
Ottoman Defeat in the Eastern Balkans: the Battle of Vaslui, 1475. We approach the 540th anniversary of the Turkish defeat at Vaslui, which occurred on 10 January 1475. Compared with the sealing of Magna Carta (1215), or with Agincourt and the burning of Jan Hus at Constance (both 1415), Vaslui is likely to attract scant […]
Posted in Crusades, East and Central Europe | Tagged 1475, crusades, Mehmed II, Moldavia, Ottoman defeat, Romania, Stephen III, Voroneţ, Voronets |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on October 14, 2014
Two fifteenth-century prelates and crusading – Piccolomini and Cusa The Church produced some outstanding figures in the fifteenth century and none more so than Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-64), who became pope in 1458 as Pius II, and Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64), who was made cardinal in 1448. They make for an interesting comparison. Piccolomini hailed […]
Posted in Catholic orders and reform, Crusades, Papacy, The Crusades, Uncategorized |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on July 24, 2014
Unexpected consequences: expulsion and flight in fifteenth-century Europe. We live in an age of enforced migration, as war, ethnic cleansing and religious conflict force vast numbers of innocent people to leave their homes and livelihoods and face an uncertain future. In the 1420s the populations of certain parts of […]
Posted in Council of Constance 1417, Crusades, East and Central Europe, Papacy |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on April 29, 2014
Seeing double: Pope John XXIII – Baldassare Cossa – For anyone familiar with the history of the fifteenth century, Sunday’s (27th April 2014) canonization of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, or John XXIII, was somewhat surreal. For he was not the first pope to bear that name and number. Between 1410 and 1415 another Italian, Baldassare Cossa, […]
Posted in Catholic orders and reform, Council of Constance 1417, Crusades, Great Schism, Papacy | Tagged 15th century, Anti-Pope, Avignon, Great Schism, uncanonical |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on April 10, 2014
The perils of performance management in fifteenth-century Germany The Council of Constance (1414-18) is famous for bringing the Great Schism to an end and for burning the Czech reformer Jan Hus, precipitating the series of Hussite crusades (1420-31). But the council also called for the reform of Catholic Europe’s plethora of religious orders, and in […]
Posted in Catholic orders and reform, Crusades, Germany, Hussites & Bohemia, The Crusades | Tagged 15th century, Benedictine monastery Prufening Abbey, crusades, reform, Regensberg, Roman Catholic Church |
Posted by Norman Housley in Cross and the Crescent: Crusading and the Contemporary World Blog on March 20, 2014
A crusading Richard III? In the spring of 1484 Richard III’s position on the throne of England was as secure as it would ever be. He had put down a rebellion against his usurpation a few months previously and was doing what he could to get Henry Tudor ousted from his exile in Brittany. […]
Posted in Richard III, The Crusades, Uncategorized |
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