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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

The Fall of Constantinople 1453 Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

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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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A bit dry, as historians of Runciman's era tend to be, but not nearly as dry as those who came before. A remarkably even-handed look at the circumstances and politics surrounding the fall of the great city on the Bosphorus, both the Greek perspective and the Turkish perspective are provided, giving a clearer look at how things worked out the way they did. The failings of the West, which ignored the danger until it was too late, are also presented in unflinching detail.Really excellent. If you're

It all started with a question from a dear friend: He wanted to know about a musical piece that I recommended to him many years ago. The piece was titled "Everytime the City Falls", and had been recorded by Audiofact, a group of jazz musicians from Turkey and USA [1]. It was an interesting and dynamic interpretation of a very old composition: A piece titled "Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae" by a Franco-Flemish composer, Guillaume Du Fay, written about 560 years ago,

An extraordinarily cogent narrative, a page-turner that doesn't wear its erudition on its sleeve. One star deducted for the obvious and necessary concessions to length and narrative. Two hundred pages of intricate diplomacy, battle, and fallout only to conclude that 1453 wasn't really important in the grand scheme. They don't make 'em like they used to.

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 European

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

And amazing book detailing the historical details leading up to the fall of Constantinople from the perspective of the Turks, the Greeks and the Latins. While it is a historical text, the details often read as an interesting novel and its highly recommended for anyone who wishes to learn of this historical event which changed the world.

The Fall of Constinonple is in my top 5 saddest historical events. Runciman does an excellent job covering the later history of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Islamic forces in the Middle East. He presents all the various ways that the East tried to save themselves--even going so far as to reunify with the Roman Catholic Church. However, Western leaders and peoples were all focused in their own backyards with their own problems as the last of the Roman Empire fell to the Turks.A timely