Ottoman Defeat in the Eastern Balkans: the Battle of Vaslui, 1475
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 […]
The perils of performance management in fifteenth-century Germany
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 […]
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