Oration Against the Turks
Pope Pius II · D.P. Curtin
Feb 2024 · Papal Documents (325-1453 AD) Book 31 · Dalcassian Press
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Following the fall of Constantinople, Pope Pius II called upon the various Christian powers to launch a military response against the Ottoman Turks. Refugees from the empire had fled into Italy and requested that the Pope place political pressure to launch a potential crusade to retake the city, and push the Ottomans out of the Balkans.
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D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator, who works with texts from the high medieval world. To date he has translated over three hundred texts relating to the development of the Western World and Christianity between the 5th and 15th centuries.
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