The Siege of Rhodes of 1480: Textual and Iconographic Sources for an Underwater Archaeological Search
The siege of Rhodes by the Ottoman Turks in 1480 was one of the most important military events of the 15th century. Commanded by the Hospitaller Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson, and played out largely on the surrounding waters, the successful defence has been immortalised in several written sour...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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The international journal of nautical archaeology
Year: 2025, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 261-288 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rhodes
B āltrūs B frsān ālāʾsbtārīa B ‘cogs’ B ḥṣār rūds 1480 B yi yuan qi shi tuan B turcos otomanos B medieval shipwrecks B ke ke chuan B Siege of Rhodes 1480 B ālāʾtrāk ālʿṯmānīūn B 1480 nian luo de dao wei gong zhan B 1480nian luo de dao wei gong zhan B coca B Ottoman Turks B zhong shi ji chen chuan B ḥṭām ālsfn fī ālʿṣūr ālūsṭā B Rodas B rūds B Caballeros sanjuanistas B pecios medievales B Knights Hospitaller B asedio de Rodas de 1480 B ao si mang tu er qi ren B luo de dao |
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| Summary: | The siege of Rhodes by the Ottoman Turks in 1480 was one of the most important military events of the 15th century. Commanded by the Hospitaller Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson, and played out largely on the surrounding waters, the successful defence has been immortalised in several written sources and art works, yet the small number of underwater archaeological findings attributed thereto is intriguing. To date four wrecks have been indirectly related to one of the three consecutive sieges of 1440, 1480 or 1522. The purpose of this article is to analyse the textual and iconographic sources on the event, the key one being the Descriptio obsidionis Rhodiæ by Guillaume Caoursin (1480), with a view to identifying those elements that are of value in the search for underwater archaeological traces thereof. These sources provide rich information on late medieval maritime warfare and watercraft in the Eastern Mediterranean and suggest that the archaeological potential with regard to the last decades of the Hospitaller presence on the island can be explored further. |
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| ISSN: | 1095-9270 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of nautical archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10572414.2024.2314173 |
