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The Fall of Constantinople. The Death of the Byzantine Empire under the Onslaught of the Ottomans

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The Fall of Constantinople. The Death of the Byzantine Empire under the Onslaught of the Ottomans
9.99 €
In his work, British Byzantine historian and medievalist Stephen Runciman tells us what brought Byzantium to the brink of destruction and the Turks to triumph, why Europe preferred not to notice the difficult situation in which the Byzantines found themselves, and why the aid they received was so negligible. The book details the course of hostilities, the reasons that led to the fall of Constantinople after a relatively short siege, and the consequences of all this, which was a terrible shock to the Christian nations. To the Turks the victory allowed them not only to establish a new capital, but also to secure for themselves a strong position in Europe for further conquests. For the Greeks, however, the defeat meant the demise of Byzantine civilization and the going underground of Greek culture, and it also led to an exodus of Byzantine intellectuals to the West, which played a significant role in the European Renaissance.
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