The Fall of Constantinople 1453

Steven Runciman

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Author
Steven Runciman
Publish Date
1990-09-13
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages
270
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0521398320
ISBN-13
9780521398329
SKU
9780521398329

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.