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Descriptio Europae Orientalis
The ''Descriptio Europae Orientalis'' ('Description of Eastern Europe') is an anonymous Latin geographical treatise written in Kingdom of France, France in the spring of 1308. The author was a Catholic Church, Catholic hostile to the Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox and to the Serbian Bogomils. He was probably a Dominican Order, Dominican. According to one hypothesis, the author was Andrew I, Archbishop of Antivari, Andreas Hungarus, a Hungarian priest who became the archbishop of Bar in Kingdom of Albania (medieval), Albania in 1307. The treatise was written for Charles, Count of Valois, who was preparing a crusade against the Byzantine Empire in furtherance of Latin Emperor, his claim to Constantinople. It is very similar in genre to the contemporary Recovery of the Holy Land, treatises on the recovery of the Holy Land, although its object is different. The countries covered in the ''Descriptio'' are Albania, Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemia, Second Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria, Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recovery Of The Holy Land
The theme of recovery of the Holy Land () was a literary genre, genre in High Middle Ages, High–Late Middle Ages, Late Medieval Christian literature about the Crusades. It consisted of treatises and memorandum, memoranda on how to recover the Holy Land for Christendom, first appearing in preparation for the Second Council of Lyon in 1274. They proliferated following the Fall of Acre, loss of Acre in 1291, shortly after which the Crusader states, permanent Crusader presence in the Holy Land Fall of Outremer, came to an end, but mostly disappeared with the cancellation of Philip VI of France's planned crusade in 1336 and the start of the Hundred Years' War between England and France the next year. The high point of recovery proposals was the pontificate of Clement V (). History Neither the Siege of Jerusalem (1187), first loss of Jerusalem in 1187 nor Siege of Jerusalem (1244), its final loss in 1244 led to a surge of written crusade proposals. In both cases, the crusade planning i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |