The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto Classics) - Softcover

Runciman, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107604699 ISBN 13: 9781107604698

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book 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.

About the Author:

Sir Steven Runciman (1903 2000) was the pre-eminent historian of the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His acclaimed History of the Crusades was first published from 1951 4.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107604699
• ISBN 13: 9781107604698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272