Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Also by Barnaby Rogerson
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
PART I: BIRTH OF NEW POWERS
1 THE CRUSADER PRINCE OF PORTUGAL Henry the Navigator, 1415–60
2 THE NAVIGATOR’S NEPHEW King Afonso the African, 1455–81, and King John II, 1481–95
3 THE GREAT EAGLE Mehmet the Conqueror of Constantinople, 1450–80
4 RECONQUISTA The Crusade of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile against Muslim Granada, 1480–1510
5 BARBAROSSA The Emergence of the Muslim Corsairs, 1480–1510
6 THE JUST AND THE GRIM The Transformation of the Ottoman Empire under Sultans Bayezid II and Selim I, 1480–1520
PART II: STRUGGLE
7 CONQUEST OF COMMERCE King Manuel, Hammer of Morocco, Lord of Guinea and of the Conquest of the Navigation and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India, 1499–1515
8 SHARIFS, SHEIKHS, SUFIS, SULTANS AND SMUGGLERS The Moroccan Struggle against the Portuguese Crusade, 1515–50
9 THE RIVALS The Division of Christendom between Charles V and Francis I
10 THE OTTOMAN GOLDEN AGE Suleyman the Magnificent and the Five Victories: Belgrade, Rhodes, Mohacs, Tabriz and Baghdad, 1520–36
11 CORSAIR KINGDOMS The Barbarossa Brothers, Uruj and Khizr, and Condottiere Andrea Doria, 1512–34
12 EMPERORS AND SULTANS Conquests, Crusades and Family Killings
PART III: DESTRUCTION
13 SKULL ISLANDS The Battle of Djerba and the Siege of Malta, 1560–70
14 A BEARD FOR AN ARM The Conquest of Cyprus and the Holy League’s Victory of Lepanto, 1570–4
15 THE LAST CRUSADE The Battle of the Three Kings
Key characters
Comparative timelines
Family trees for the rulers of Morocco, Spain, Portugal and the Ottoman Empire
Notes
Further reading
Index
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →