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| Title | : | The Fall of Constantinople 1453 |
| Author | : | Steven Runciman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Canto |
| Pages | : | Pages: 270 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 1990 by Cambridge University Press |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Medieval History. Historical. Medieval |
Steven Runciman
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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."... an excellent tale, full of suspense and pathos... He [Sir Steven Runciman] tells the story and, as always, tells it very elegantly."
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| ISBN: | 0521398320 (ISBN13: 9780521398329) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Aeneas Sylvius, in his lament, termed the fall of Constantinople as 'the second death of Homer and of Plato.'This is such an extraordinary narrative on the dying moments of the 1100 years old Byzantine empire. Beautifully written that it makes the complex history of Byzantine so easy to understand as the words flow fluidly. Runciman brings the history alive before the eyes and nowhere it falls into traps of partiality or ambiguity. I have always had a fascination for this part of EuropeanA beautiful book, and extremely valuable as long as you are aware of its limitations. Runciman believed in the art of turning history into readable narrative--something he does with remarkable skill--and the result is a book that is powerful and engrossing, but which, by necessity, must elide, simplify, and generally stick to a single narrative perspective. If you are a serious scholar, you already know that Runciman is more of a starting point than the final word, and recent work can tell you a
Some thoughts...Runciman notices that the Byzantines were at their "cultural" height (meaning the liberal arts) even as their "civilization" (their existence as a coherent civil state and polity) was about to end. Spengler identifies this paradox as precisely the definition of the civilizational (viz, the final) stage - one expects a flourishing of the arts as a culture is about to die.A disturbing background factor in this narrative is the depopulation of the Byzantine empire. If demography is
Read By: Charlton GriffinCopyright: 1965Audiobook Copyright: 2009Genre: HistoryPublisher: Audio ConnoisseurAbridged: NoBlurb - Few events have riveted the imagination or wrung the heart as did the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. With its passage into the hands of the Ottoman Empire, European history entered a new era and Byzantine Civilization disappeared forever. Although Constantinople had been under constant pressure from Muslim incursions for over seven centuries, its fall came
With the fall of Conhstantinople ended the Roman empire. Sultan Mehmet II was young and wanted to do something heroic. In addition he saw this city as a never ending thorn in his empire so he made it happen. She recieved little help in her hour of need. Evidently most of the West thought she was stronger than reality. She would have been absorbed by the Turks eventually. The end came sooner than later. This is considered by scholars to be the end of the middle ages.
This book offers a very vivid and detailed account of the how and why of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. While the majority of the book considers the actual events of 1453 as the titles indicates the author also treats the context of these events in much detail. Both the gradual decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Islam and the Turkish ghazi are considered.The book was written in the mid 1960's, however, and it shows. The author clearly wrote from a Christian / European point of
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