The Fall of Constantinople, 1453

Type

Book

Authors

Steven Runciman

ISBN 10

0521095735

ISBN 13

9780521095730

Tags

Great Britain, Europe

Description

First published in 1965, this is a scholarly and highly accessible study of Constantinople's fall, an event which had tumultuous repercussions across both East and West. Runciman demonstrates the inevitability of the Turkish conquest and the impotence of the Byzantine Empire which, at the time, comprised only one ineffectual city. This vivid account reconstructs the dramatic events which won the Turks an imperial capital, with a vital geographical location, and examines how the Greeks reacted to this devastating blow. - from Amzon

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