Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Underpinnings: antagonisms and allegiances
3: Strategy, mobilization, and control
4: Recruitment and finance
5: Communication
6: Indulgences and the crusade against the Turks
7: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Norman Housley was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1952, and educated there and at Cambridge University. Since 1983 he has worked at the University of Leicester, holding visiting fellowships at Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. Housley has spent his professional life working on the crusades, with the emphasis on crusading in the late Middle Ages. He has published thirteen authored or edited books on the crusades. He has enjoyed a long relationship with Oxford
University Press, with whom this is his fifth book.

Reviews

Overall, it is an impressive contribution to Housleys voluminous body of work on crusading in a Europe undergoing significant political, religious, and cultural transformation.
*Scott Rank, European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire*

This is a thoroughly well-researched and well-written study, and Housley is to be congratulated on a remarkable achievement.
*Peter Edbury, History*

Housley has succeeded admirably in producing not only a clear and concise work of synthesis, but one which seeks to put forward new conclusions and reconfigure the way in which historians view the crusading movement in the latter half of the fifteenth century ... Housley has once again succeeded in producing a monograph that will no doubt remain the authority on the topic for many years to come.
*Mark Whelan, English Historical Review*