27 février 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Norman Housley, « Robur imperii. Mobilizing Imperial Resources for the Crusade against the Turks, 1453-1505 », Presses universitaires du Midi, ID : 10.4000/books.pumi.16662
Assembling the resources for the crusade against the Ottoman Turks was inherently problematic, because a discourse based on shared perils, and common aspirations and values, had to be harmonized with procedures for raising combatants, shipping, finance and war material that varied considerably across the breadth of the Catholic community. Geographical location, political complexion and bureaucratic capability all shaped those procedures alongside calculations about the war’s likely dimensions...