The Last Crusaders

The Hundred-Year Battle for the Center of the World

Barnaby Rogerson

• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781468302882
• Print ISBN:
  9781590204405
• Subtopic: European Medieval History

The acclaimed Medieval historian examines how the crusades of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries reshaped the Mediterranean and influenced the globe.
In the late Middle Ages, the forces of Christianity engaged in a series of epic battles with the Ottoman Empire. Though these later crusades are often overshadowed by earlier conflicts, they hold profound historical significance. They were the bridge between the medieval and modern periods, between feudalism and colonialism.
The Last Crusaders is about this period's last great conflict between East and West. From the great naval campaigns and the ferocious struggle to dominate the North African shore, the hostility spread along trade routes, consuming nations and cultures, destroying dynasties, and spawning the first colonial empires in South America and the Indian Ocean.
"Rogerson's narrative colors the conflicts of the sixteenth century with the derring-do of kings, corsair, and crusaders; this book will keep readers up long past bedtime." — Foreword Magazine

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Barnaby Rogerson
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Maps
• Introduction
• PART I: BIRTH OF NEW POWERS
• PART II: STRUGGLE
• PART III: DESTRUCTION
• Key characters
• Comparative timelines
• Family trees for the rulers of Morocco, Spain, Portugal and the Ottoman Empire
• Notes
• Further reading
• Index