The fall of Constantinople and the end of empire.(Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453)(Book review)

Contemporary Review | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453. Roger Crowley. Faber. [pounds sterling]16.99. 304 pages. ISBN 0-571-22185-8.

On Tuesday, 29 May 1453, Constantinople fell to the besieging army of Sultan Mehmet II. Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor, charged hopeless, defiant and screaming into the Ottoman masses. He was never seen again. More than a city fell that day. Some say the Middle Ages ended then, and Constantine saw himself as the last of the Romans. The Theodosian wall that for a thousand years had repulsed all invaders except those of the Fourth Crusade, had been ...

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