The last crusaders : the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world /
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Language: English
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New York :
Overlook Press,
2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Call Number: D214 .R63 2010
Table of Contents:
- Birth of new powers. The crusader prince of Portugal : Henry the Navigator, 1415-60 ; The Navigator's nephew L King Alfonso the African, 1455-81, and King John II, 1481-95 ; The Great Eagle : Mehmet the Conqueror of Constantinople, 1450-80 ; Reconquista : the Crusade of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile against Muslim Granada, 1480-1510 ; Barbarossa : the emergence of the Muslim corsairs, 1480-1510 ; The just and the grim : the transformation of the Ottoman Empire under Sultans Bayezid II and Selim I, 1480-1520
- Struggle. King Manuel, Hammer of Morocco, Lord of Guinea and of the Conquest of the Navigation and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India, 1499-1515 ; Sharifs, sheikhs, Sufis, sultans, and smugglers : the Moroccan struggle against the Portuguese Crusade, 1515-50 ; The rivals : the division of Christendom between Charles V and Francis I ; The Ottoman Golden Age : Suleyman the Magnificent and the Five victories : Belgrade, Rhodes, Mohacs, Tabriz, and Baghdad, 1520-36 ; Corsair kingdoms : the Barbarossa brothers, Uruj and Khizr, and Condottiere Andrea Doria, 1512-34 ; Emperors and sultans : conquests, crusades, and family killings
- Destruction. Skull Islands : the Battle of Djerba and the Siege of Malta, 1560-70 ; A beard for an arm : the conquest of Cyprus and the Holy League's victory at Lepanto, 1570-4 ; The last Crusade : the Battle of the Three Kings
- Key characters
- Comparative timelines
- Family trees for the rules of Morocco, Spain, Portugal, and the Ottoman Empire.