The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto)
This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital,...
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This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest meant the end of the civilisation of Byzantium, and led to the exodus of scholars stimulating the tremendous expansion of Greek studies in the European Renaissance.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521398329 (0521398320)
Publish date: November 30th 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 270
Edition language: English
Read By: Charlton GriffinCopyright: 1965Audiobook Copyright: 2009Genre: HistoryPublisher: Audio ConnoisseurAbridged: NoBlurb - Few events have riveted the imagination or wrung the heart as did the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. With its passage into the hands of the Ottoman Empire, Eur...
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