The “Crusade” in the Age of Alfonso of Aragon

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https://doi.org/10.6093/2974-637X/12883

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Crusade, Alfonso of Aragon, Eastern Policy, Roberto Sanseverino, Humanistic Culture

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Against the backdrop of an energetic eastern policy that – true to Catalan tradition – focused above all on Egypt, the chief economic magnet for Aragonese merchants, King Alfonso V also forged special ties with the Ethiopian monarch and with rulers across North Africa. Only in the 1450s did this diplomacy acquire a crusading tone, mainly for propaganda purposes, bolstered by numerous exhortatory tracts that court humanists and other writers close to the Aragonese sovereign addressed to him, urging him to take up the cross and assume command of a holy expedition.

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Bruno Figliuolo, University of Udine

Bruno Figliuolo is full professor of Medieval History at the University of Udine. He is co-director of the «Nuova Rivista Storica», a member of the Pontinian and Naples academies of science letters and arts, a member of the scientific committee of numerous publishing bodies and series, as well as of the National Edition of the Texts of Humanistic Historiography. He is the author of numerous monographs and many articles that have appeared in international journals and conference proceedings, and has developed multiple historiographical interests: from the history of the Mezzogiorno to historical seismology, humanistic culture, Italian economic history and historiography between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has recently published a volume on the economic structures and commercial spaces of Italian cities in the late Middle Ages (Udine 2022).

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2025-12-04

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Figliuolo, B. (2025). The “Crusade” in the Age of Alfonso of Aragon. CESURA - Rivista, 4(2), 349–363. https://doi.org/10.6093/2974-637X/12883

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): CESURA - Rivista, 4/2 (2025)

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