Norman Housley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Housley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Housley |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSLEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gathering and using information at the fifteenth-century Church councils: The example of crusade
The discussion of crusade at the councils of Constance (1414–18) and Basel (1431–49) is used to test the hypothesis that in the fifteenth century increasing importance was attached to the gathering of information. At Constance the chief crusading topic was the past and future of the Baltic crusade; at Basel attention was given to the negotiation of peace with the Hussites and union with the Orthodox Greeks. The paper considers the origin and char…
The Papacy, Conciliarism and Crusade, 1449–1517
Between the Council of Basle and the Fifth Lateran Council the papal curia was subject to much pressure to convene a new general council to address the urgent need for a crusade. This essay examines the relationship between the forceful lobbying for a council by Europe's rulers, and the persistence of conciliarist sentiments in society at large, particularly among its educated elite. While secular rulers were exploiting the vulnerability of the p…
Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade
This chapter examines the response to papal wars against heretics and other Christian opponents of the Papacy in the fifteenth century. Thanks to the Prague debate over the crusade proclaimed by Pope John XXIII against the rival obedience in 1412, and due to a series of crusades against the Hussites in the 1420s and 1460s, Bohemia became the main theatre of anti-heretical crusading. This chapter traces the doubts that the crusades against Christi…
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Nicholas of Cusa, and the Crusade: Conciliar, Imperial, and Papal Authority
This essay surveys the ways the attitudes of Piccolomini and Cusa toward the initiation of a crusade were shaped by their shifting allegiances between 1432 and their deaths in 1464. Piccolomini's developing interest in crusade, which became his central concern during his reign as pope, is traced through his years at Basel and in the service of Frederick III. Cusa's attitude toward crusade is approached in terms of the apparent contradiction betwe…
The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and competing cultures
Pope Gregory X and the Crusades, by Philip Baldwin
Journal Article Pope Gregory X and the Crusades, by Philip Baldwin Get access Pope Gregory X and the Crusades , by Philip Baldwin ( Woodbridge : The Boydell P. , 2014 ; pp. 247 . £60 ). Norman Housley Norman Housley University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015, Pages 1528–1529, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev263 Published: 18 Ja…
Ideology, Careerism and Civic Consciousness: The Crusade against Basel, 1482–1485
The abstract for your paper is included below. This will appear online only. In December 1482 Pope Sixtus IV gave his legate Angelo Geraldini the faculty to preach a crusade against the people of Basel for refusing to hand over the person of the Croatian Dominican Andrija Jamometić, whose appeal for a council had plunged Sixtus’s reign into crisis. This essay compares the various threads of thought and action which prompted the Pope to resort to …
Christendom’s Bulwark: Croatian Identity and the Response to the Ottoman Advance, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Croatia's entry to the EU in July 2013 signalled an association with Europe which was anticipated in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the regular use of antemurale (bulwark) rhetoric. This rhetoric was one of the salient characteristics of the period's crusading discourse, as the task of mobilising Christian assistance for regions confronting the Ottoman advance, and in so doing defending the faith as a whole, created a two-way traf…
Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536
This book describes and analyzes warfare that sprang from and was driven by religious belief, in the period from the Hussite wars to the first generation of the Reformation. The focus is on a number of key theatres. At times warfare between national communities was shaped by convictions of ‘sacred patriotism’, either in defending God-given land or in the pursuit of messianic programmes abroad. Insurrectionary activity, especially when fuelled by …
The Crusades and Islam
England and the Avignon Popes: The Practice of Diplomacy in Late Medieval Europe . Karsten Plöger
Pour en finir avec la Croisade: Mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Pour en finir avec la Croisade: Mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. By GÉRAUD POUMARÈDE (Paris: P.U. de France, 2004; pp. 686. Eur 38). FOR many years historians of the crusades have been aware that crusading ideas and attitudes persisted into the early modern period and exerted an influence on the conflict that was conducted by some of the European powers, notably the papacy, Venice and the Habsburgs, again…
Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages . Amnon Linder
Crusading in the Fifteenth Century
List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction N.Housley Italian Humanists and the Problem of the Crusade M.Meserve Pope Pius II and the Crusade N.Bisaha The German Reichstage and the Crusade J.Helmrath Burgundy and the Crusade J.Paviot A Concealed but Powerful Pattern: Crusading, Nationalism and the Swiss Confederation in the late Middle Ages C.Sieber-Lehmann Giovanni da Capistrano and the Crusade of 1456 N.Housley Hungary and …
One man and his wars: The depiction of warfare by Marshal Boucicaut’s biographer
The career of Jean II le Maingre, Marshal Boucicaut, was characterised by constant bellicosity: in the wars of his king, as commander of a French expeditionary corps to Constantinople, as governor of the city of Genoa on behalf of the crown, and as a willing volunteer in conflicts against Muslims and pagan Lithuanians. Not surprisingly therefore, the practice of war plays a large role in the marshal’s famous biography, the ‘Livre des fais’. This …
Holy Land or Holy Lands? Palestine and the Catholic West in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
In one passage in his famous account, Friar Felix Faber described how ‘some dull and unprofitable pilgrims’ to Jerusalem in 1480 mocked the excited behaviour of the devout in the courtyard in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ‘calling them fools, hypocrites and Beghards’. The incident is revealing of the spectrum of reactions provoked by the experience of the Holy Land in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. Here more than anywhere else…
Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross Christopher Maier
Received
Historiographical essay: Insurrection as religious war, 1400–1536
Peut-on considerer comme des guerres de religion les revoltes armees qui ont eu lieu a la fin du Moyen Age et au debut de la Reforme? L'historiographie recente sur ce sujet vaut la peine d'etre passee en revue parce que l'une des caracteristiques les plus frappantes de cette periode a ete son experience a la fois de l'insurrection et du bouleversement religieux a une echelle jamais atteinte jusque la. Il est donc inevitable de se poser la questio…
Crusading as Social Revolt: The Hungarian Peasant Uprising of 1514
On 9 April 1514 Tamás Bakócz, archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal-legate of Pope Leo X , initiated the preaching of a crusade against the Turks in Hungary. On 24 April György Dózsa Székely, a minor nobleman serving with the garrison of Belgrade who had experience of fighting the Turks, was appointed as commander of the crusading army. Dózsa marched southwards from Pest on 10 May with the main body of crusaders, some 15,000 strong, for the most p…
Frontier societies and crusading in the late middle ages
There is general agreement amongst historians that during its 'classical period', crusading was influenced to only a limited degree by Christendom's frontier societies. The First Crusade had its origin in the interaction between a reforming papacy and a warrior aristocracy concerned for its own salvation, which occurred within the heartlands of post-Carolingian Europe in the late eleventh century. The vital job of interpreting the First Crusade i…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access NORMAN HOUSLEY NORMAN HOUSLEY University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 177–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.177 Published: 01 January 1993
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access NORMAN HOUSLEY NORMAN HOUSLEY University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 988-a–988, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.988-a Published: 01 October 1992
Pope Clement V and the crusades of 1309–10
There were three crusading expeditions in 1309– 1310: against the Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean, the Moors in Granada, and the Venetian soldiers occupying the papal city of Ferrara. The campaigns illustrate the continuing vitality of the crusading movement despite the setbacks of the previous decades; but they also reveal the consequences of extending the crusade to various ‘fronts’, both outside and within the frontiers of Christendom. Fo…
Politics and Heresy in Italy: Anti-Heretical Crusades, Orders and Confraternities, 1200–1500
One of the most important weapons in the armoury of the Church during its struggle with heresy in the later Middle Ages was the militant and outward-looking piety of the lay faithful. There were two main ways in which the Church could employ the religious zeal of the laity in the defence of the faith, especially during the critical battle with catharism in the thirteenth century. One was the issue of crusade indulgences and privileges to all who …
The Franco-Papal Crusade Negotiations of 1322–3
The first two years of the reign of Charles IV, the last Capetian king of France, witnessed detailed negotiations between the French court and the papal curia on the question of organising a crusade to the East. The negotiations are striking proof that on crusading matters the papacy still looked to the French crown to take the lead, attempting to continue a tradition of Franco-papal cooperation on the crusade which was rooted in the mid-thirteen…
Politics and Heresy in Italy: Anti-Heretical Crusades, Orders and Confraternities, 1200–1500
One of the most important weapons in the armoury of the Church during its struggle with heresy in the later Middle Ages was the militant and outward-looking piety of the lay faithful. There were two main ways in which the Church could employ the religious zeal of the laity in the defence of the faith, especially during the critical battle with catharism in the thirteenth century. One was the issue of crusade indulgences and privileges to all who …
Frontier societies and crusading in the late middle ages
There is general agreement amongst historians that during its 'classical period', crusading was influenced to only a limited degree by Christendom's frontier societies. The First Crusade had its origin in the interaction between a reforming papacy and a warrior aristocracy concerned for its own salvation, which occurred within the heartlands of post-Carolingian Europe in the late eleventh century. The vital job of interpreting the First Crusade i…
Ideology, Careerism and Civic Consciousness: The Crusade against Basel, 1482–1485
The abstract for your paper is included below. This will appear online only. In December 1482 Pope Sixtus IV gave his legate Angelo Geraldini the faculty to preach a crusade against the people of Basel for refusing to hand over the person of the Croatian Dominican Andrija Jamometić, whose appeal for a council had plunged Sixtus’s reign into crisis. This essay compares the various threads of thought and action which prompted the Pope to resort to …
Pope Clement V and the crusades of 1309–10
There were three crusading expeditions in 1309– 1310: against the Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean, the Moors in Granada, and the Venetian soldiers occupying the papal city of Ferrara. The campaigns illustrate the continuing vitality of the crusading movement despite the setbacks of the previous decades; but they also reveal the consequences of extending the crusade to various ‘fronts’, both outside and within the frontiers of Christendom. Fo…
The Franco-Papal Crusade Negotiations of 1322–3
The first two years of the reign of Charles IV, the last Capetian king of France, witnessed detailed negotiations between the French court and the papal curia on the question of organising a crusade to the East. The negotiations are striking proof that on crusading matters the papacy still looked to the French crown to take the lead, attempting to continue a tradition of Franco-papal cooperation on the crusade which was rooted in the mid-thirteen…
Pope Clement V and the crusades of 1309–10
There were three crusading expeditions in 1309– 1310: against the Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean, the Moors in Granada, and the Venetian soldiers occupying the papal city of Ferrara. The campaigns illustrate the continuing vitality of the crusading movement despite the setbacks of the previous decades; but they also reveal the consequences of extending the crusade to various ‘fronts’, both outside and within the frontiers of Christendom. Fo…
Politics and Heresy in Italy: Anti-Heretical Crusades, Orders and Confraternities, 1200–1500
One of the most important weapons in the armoury of the Church during its struggle with heresy in the later Middle Ages was the militant and outward-looking piety of the lay faithful. There were two main ways in which the Church could employ the religious zeal of the laity in the defence of the faith, especially during the critical battle with catharism in the thirteenth century. One was the issue of crusade indulgences and privileges to all who …
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access NORMAN HOUSLEY NORMAN HOUSLEY University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 988-a–988, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.988-a Published: 01 October 1992
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access NORMAN HOUSLEY NORMAN HOUSLEY University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 177–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.177 Published: 01 January 1993
Frontier societies and crusading in the late middle ages
There is general agreement amongst historians that during its 'classical period', crusading was influenced to only a limited degree by Christendom's frontier societies. The First Crusade had its origin in the interaction between a reforming papacy and a warrior aristocracy concerned for its own salvation, which occurred within the heartlands of post-Carolingian Europe in the late eleventh century. The vital job of interpreting the First Crusade i…
Crusading as Social Revolt: The Hungarian Peasant Uprising of 1514
On 9 April 1514 Tamás Bakócz, archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal-legate of Pope Leo X , initiated the preaching of a crusade against the Turks in Hungary. On 24 April György Dózsa Székely, a minor nobleman serving with the garrison of Belgrade who had experience of fighting the Turks, was appointed as commander of the crusading army. Dózsa marched southwards from Pest on 10 May with the main body of crusaders, some 15,000 strong, for the most p…
Historiographical essay: Insurrection as religious war, 1400–1536
Peut-on considerer comme des guerres de religion les revoltes armees qui ont eu lieu a la fin du Moyen Age et au debut de la Reforme? L'historiographie recente sur ce sujet vaut la peine d'etre passee en revue parce que l'une des caracteristiques les plus frappantes de cette periode a ete son experience a la fois de l'insurrection et du bouleversement religieux a une echelle jamais atteinte jusque la. Il est donc inevitable de se poser la questio…
Holy Land or Holy Lands? Palestine and the Catholic West in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
In one passage in his famous account, Friar Felix Faber described how ‘some dull and unprofitable pilgrims’ to Jerusalem in 1480 mocked the excited behaviour of the devout in the courtyard in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ‘calling them fools, hypocrites and Beghards’. The incident is revealing of the spectrum of reactions provoked by the experience of the Holy Land in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. Here more than anywhere else…
Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross Christopher Maier
Received
One man and his wars: The depiction of warfare by Marshal Boucicaut’s biographer
The career of Jean II le Maingre, Marshal Boucicaut, was characterised by constant bellicosity: in the wars of his king, as commander of a French expeditionary corps to Constantinople, as governor of the city of Genoa on behalf of the crown, and as a willing volunteer in conflicts against Muslims and pagan Lithuanians. Not surprisingly therefore, the practice of war plays a large role in the marshal’s famous biography, the ‘Livre des fais’. This …
Crusading in the Fifteenth Century
List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction N.Housley Italian Humanists and the Problem of the Crusade M.Meserve Pope Pius II and the Crusade N.Bisaha The German Reichstage and the Crusade J.Helmrath Burgundy and the Crusade J.Paviot A Concealed but Powerful Pattern: Crusading, Nationalism and the Swiss Confederation in the late Middle Ages C.Sieber-Lehmann Giovanni da Capistrano and the Crusade of 1456 N.Housley Hungary and …
Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages . Amnon Linder
England and the Avignon Popes: The Practice of Diplomacy in Late Medieval Europe . Karsten Plöger
Pour en finir avec la Croisade: Mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Pour en finir avec la Croisade: Mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. By GÉRAUD POUMARÈDE (Paris: P.U. de France, 2004; pp. 686. Eur 38). FOR many years historians of the crusades have been aware that crusading ideas and attitudes persisted into the early modern period and exerted an influence on the conflict that was conducted by some of the European powers, notably the papacy, Venice and the Habsburgs, again…
The Crusades and Islam
Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536
This book describes and analyzes warfare that sprang from and was driven by religious belief, in the period from the Hussite wars to the first generation of the Reformation. The focus is on a number of key theatres. At times warfare between national communities was shaped by convictions of ‘sacred patriotism’, either in defending God-given land or in the pursuit of messianic programmes abroad. Insurrectionary activity, especially when fuelled by …
Christendom’s Bulwark: Croatian Identity and the Response to the Ottoman Advance, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Croatia's entry to the EU in July 2013 signalled an association with Europe which was anticipated in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the regular use of antemurale (bulwark) rhetoric. This rhetoric was one of the salient characteristics of the period's crusading discourse, as the task of mobilising Christian assistance for regions confronting the Ottoman advance, and in so doing defending the faith as a whole, created a two-way traf…
Pope Gregory X and the Crusades, by Philip Baldwin
Journal Article Pope Gregory X and the Crusades, by Philip Baldwin Get access Pope Gregory X and the Crusades , by Philip Baldwin ( Woodbridge : The Boydell P. , 2014 ; pp. 247 . £60 ). Norman Housley Norman Housley University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015, Pages 1528–1529, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev263 Published: 18 Ja…
Ideology, Careerism and Civic Consciousness: The Crusade against Basel, 1482–1485
The abstract for your paper is included below. This will appear online only. In December 1482 Pope Sixtus IV gave his legate Angelo Geraldini the faculty to preach a crusade against the people of Basel for refusing to hand over the person of the Croatian Dominican Andrija Jamometić, whose appeal for a council had plunged Sixtus’s reign into crisis. This essay compares the various threads of thought and action which prompted the Pope to resort to …
The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and competing cultures
Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade
This chapter examines the response to papal wars against heretics and other Christian opponents of the Papacy in the fifteenth century. Thanks to the Prague debate over the crusade proclaimed by Pope John XXIII against the rival obedience in 1412, and due to a series of crusades against the Hussites in the 1420s and 1460s, Bohemia became the main theatre of anti-heretical crusading. This chapter traces the doubts that the crusades against Christi…
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Nicholas of Cusa, and the Crusade: Conciliar, Imperial, and Papal Authority
This essay surveys the ways the attitudes of Piccolomini and Cusa toward the initiation of a crusade were shaped by their shifting allegiances between 1432 and their deaths in 1464. Piccolomini's developing interest in crusade, which became his central concern during his reign as pope, is traced through his years at Basel and in the service of Frederick III. Cusa's attitude toward crusade is approached in terms of the apparent contradiction betwe…
Gathering and using information at the fifteenth-century Church councils: The example of crusade
The discussion of crusade at the councils of Constance (1414–18) and Basel (1431–49) is used to test the hypothesis that in the fifteenth century increasing importance was attached to the gathering of information. At Constance the chief crusading topic was the past and future of the Baltic crusade; at Basel attention was given to the negotiation of peace with the Hussites and union with the Orthodox Greeks. The paper considers the origin and char…
The Papacy, Conciliarism and Crusade, 1449–1517
Between the Council of Basle and the Fifth Lateran Council the papal curia was subject to much pressure to convene a new general council to address the urgent need for a crusade. This essay examines the relationship between the forceful lobbying for a council by Europe's rulers, and the persistence of conciliarist sentiments in society at large, particularly among its educated elite. While secular rulers were exploiting the vulnerability of the p…
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