Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.32728/flux.2022.4.3
The Pontic King of Bosnia in Anti-Ottoman Crusading in the Mid-1470s: Crusader Curiosities from Italian Archives
Alexandru Simon
; Centre for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca
Abstract
The paper focuses on a selection of documents from Italian archives that have not been included in the standard reference source collections from the past two centuries. The documents reveal certain “curiosities” such as the identity/identities of the king of Bosnia in the mid-1470s or papal appeals to support a Greek rite Christian lord against the Ottoman Turks. The newly found or re-found information allows new insights into the complex connections that shaped the growing area of contact between Free Christendom and the Ottoman Empire. The same information also indicates the limitations–recent or not–of different “over-reaching” interpretations of partially known documentary evidence.
Keywords
Kingdom of Bosnia; Kingdom of Hungary; Ottoman Empire; Crimean Peninsula; Adriatic Sea; crusading
Hrčak ID:
289649
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Publication date:
30.12.2022.
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