Knight by Michael Prestwich

Author:Michael Prestwich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2018-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chaucer’s knight, in The Canterbury Tales, was a great crusader. Chaucer probably based his career on the life of Philippe de Mézières, a propagandist for the crusade. (From Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Westminster, ?1485. British Library, London)

The Mediterranean and the Balkans

If you are still insistent on taking the cross, there are possibilities for expeditions in the Mediterranean, even though there is little hope of bringing the western kingdoms together for a big expedition in the style of the great crusades of the past. There have been plans for launching a large-scale crusade, and treatises have been written, notably by a French lawyer, Pierre Dubois, and a Venetian, Marino Sanudo, about how this can be done. The theories have proved very hard to put into practice.

•There were hopes in the 1330s that the kings of France and England might join together on a crusade, but instead they ended up fighting each other.

•King Peter I of Cyprus went on a tour of Europe to recruit crusaders, and to take part in a great many tournaments. He organized an expedition in 1365 that, astonishingly, succeeded in capturing Alexandria in Egypt, though it was soon lost again. The crusaders did, however, acquire a good deal of booty.

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