Author: Runciman, Steven
Canto Edition; Paperback; 4 Line Diagrams 8 Half-tones
270 pages
Published: September 1990
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521398320

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 fall of Constantinople came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. This account sets out to show how the Turkish Empire benefitted from the fall and how the end of the civilization of Byzantium let to an enormous expansion of Greek studies in the European Renaissance.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.