The fall of Constantinople, 1453
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The fall of Constantinople, 1453
Cambridge University Press, 1990
Canto ed
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1. The dying empire
- 2. The rising sultanate
- 3. The emperor and the sultan
- 4. The price of Western aid
- 5. Preparations for the siege
- 6. The siege begins
- 7. The loss of the Golden Horn
- 8. Fading hope
- 9. The last days of Byzantium
- 10. The fall of Constantinople
- 11. The fate of the vanquished
- 12. Europe and the conqueror
- 13. The survivors
- Appendix I. Principal sources for a history of the fall of Constantinople
- Appendix II. The churches of Constantinople after the conquest
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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