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.
- ISBN13 9780521398329
- Publish Date 13 September 1990 (first published 1 May 1969)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 3 October 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 270
- Language English