Table of Contents

Preface

1 The fall of Constantinople as a turning point

2 Byzantium on the eve

3 The Greek reaction

4 The Western reaction

5 The Russian reaction

6 The Ottoman reaction

7 What was lost?

Further reading

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

A concise and original study of the significant turning point in history when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and the world began a process of radical change for the late medieval world.

About the Author

Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History, University of Edinburgh; Editor of Cambridge History of Christianity V – Eastern Christianity (2006); Author of A Byzantine Government in Exile (1974), The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204 (1985/1997), Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni (1082-1261) (1995), and The Fourth Crusade (2003)

Reviews

"This stimulating study...should be of considerable interest to specialists, students and general readers alike."Dimitris J. Kastritsis, University of St Andrews, UK