Ebook: Crusade of Varna, 1443-45

The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to 'liberate' Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, held the Crusaders during the winter war of 1443, finally securing victory at Varna in November, 1444. The Crusade petered out in 1445 with the expedition of the Burgundian fleet on the Danube. More than any other single event, it was Murad's victory at Varna that secur.;Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I Anonymous, The Holy Wars of Sultan Murad Son of Sultan Mehmed Khan; II Jehan de Wavrin, From the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre; III Michel Beheim, This Poem Tells of King Pladislavo, King of Hungary and How He Fought with the Turks; IV Miscellaneous Texts; 1. From the Decree of the Council of Florence, 1439; 2. From the Chronicle of Uruç Bin 'Adil El-Kazzaz; 3. From Neşri's History of the Ottomans; 4. From an Ottoman Chronological List of 1445; 5. From the Chronicle of Aşıkpaşazade; 6. From a Greek Short Chronicle, c.1470.