The Fall Of Constantinople 1453
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A landmark work of medieval military and political history, The Fall of Constantinople 1453 chronicles one of the most pivotal moments in world history — the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II's conquest of the Byzantine capital that brought a thousand-year empire to its dramatic end. Steven Runciman, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative historians of the Byzantine world and the Crusades, reconstructs the fifty-three-day siege with vivid precision, drawing on Greek, Turkish, and Western sources to present a panoramic account of the city's final days. Written with elegance and scholarly rigour, the narrative captures the courage of the city's defenders, the strategic genius of the Ottoman forces, and the heartbreak of a civilisation's collapse. The fall of Constantinople in May 1453 marks the conventional boundary between the medieval and early modern worlds, and Runciman's account remains the definitive English-language study of this world-changing event.
Author: Steven Runciman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Readers Union / Cambridge University Press
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover binding, no loose pages evident.
A landmark work of medieval military and political history, The Fall of Constantinople 1453 chronicles one of the most pivotal moments in world history — the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II's conquest of the Byzantine capital that brought a thousand-year empire to its dramatic end. Steven Runciman, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative historians of the Byzantine world and the Crusades, reconstructs the fifty-three-day siege with vivid precision, drawing on Greek, Turkish, and Western sources to present a panoramic account of the city's final days. Written with elegance and scholarly rigour, the narrative captures the courage of the city's defenders, the strategic genius of the Ottoman forces, and the heartbreak of a civilisation's collapse. The fall of Constantinople in May 1453 marks the conventional boundary between the medieval and early modern worlds, and Runciman's account remains the definitive English-language study of this world-changing event.