Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. A Note on Names and Places xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE Preparations for Crusade, 1453–1456
8. 1. POPE NICHOLAS V, ETSI ECCLESIA CHRISTI 39
9. 2. AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI, CONSTANTINOPOLITANA CLADES 46
10. 3. CORRESPONDENCE OF 1455–1456 51
11. 4. LITURGY FOR TAKING THE CROSS 68
12. 5. A POPE’S CALL TO PRAYER 71
13. 6. POPE CALLIXTUS III, OMNIPOTENTIS DEI MISERICORDIA 82
14. PART TWO The Earliest Accounts
15. 7. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO TO POPE CALLIXTUS III 87
16. 8. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO TO POPE CALLIXTUS III 88
17. 9. JOHN HUNYADI TO DENIS SZÉCSI, ARCHBISHOP OF ESZTERGOM 91
18. 10. JOHN HUNYADI TO LADISLAUS GARAI, PALATINE OF HUNGARY 91
19. 11. JOHN HUNYADI TO KING LADISLAUS V 93
20. 12. JOHN OF TAGLIACOZZO TO A FELLOW FRANCISCAN 95
21. 13. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO TO POPE CALLIXTUS III 104
22. PART THREE News and Propaganda
23. 14. AMBASSADOR OF THE BISHOP OF ŠIBENIK TO POPE CALLIXTUS III 109
24. 15. CARDINAL JUAN CARVAJAL TO FRANCESCO SFORZA 112
25. 16. LETTERS OF JOHN GOLDENER 113
26. 17. LADISLAUS V TO DUKE FRANCESCO SFORZA OF MILAN 118
27. 18. THE CITY OF NUREMBERG TO THE CITY OF WEISSENBURG 121
28. 19. POPE CALLIXTUS III TO FRANCESCO SFORZA, DUKE OF MILAN 122
29. 20. LETTERS OF BERNARD OF KRAIBURG 125
30. 21. POPE CALLIXTUS III, LETTER TO JUAN SOLER 130
31. 22. ANONYMOUS (PSEUDO-JOHN OF CAPISTRANO), TO ALL CHRISTIANS 133
32. 23. ANONYMOUS, LETTER TO HENRY OF ECKENFELT 137
33. 24. LITURGICAL COMMEMORATIONS OF BELGRADE 142
34. PART FOUR John of Tagliacozzo’s Story of the Victory of Belgrade
35. 25. JOHN OF TAGLIACOZZO, THE STORY OF THE VICTORY OF BELGRADE 147
36. PART FIVE Memoir and Chronicle
37. 26. THOMAS EBENDORFER, CHRONICLE OF AUSTRIA 217
38. 27. LAONIKOS CHALKOKONDYLES, THE HISTORIES 222
39. 28. MICHAEL KRITOPOULOS (KRITOBOULOS), HISTORY OF MEHMED THE CONQUEROR 228
40. 29. JACOPO PROMONTORIO, RECOLLECTA 232
41. 30. ÂŞIKPAŞAZADE, MEMORIES AND CHRONICLES OF THE HOUSE OF OSMAN 235
42. 31. JOHN THUROCZ, CHRONICLE OF THE HUNGARIANS 237
43. 32. TURSUN BEG, HISTORY OF THE CONQUEROR 249
44. 33. THE OXFORD ANONYMOUS CHRONICLE 256
45. 34. KONSTANTIN MIHAILOVIĆ, MEMOIRS 259
46. Cast of Characters 269
47. General Timeline 275
48. Timeline of the Crusade of 1456 279
49. Maps 281
50. Index 285