Hoppa till innehållet
Omslagsbild för Cross & Crescent in the Balkans
Isbn: 978-18-4468-760-2
Förlag: Pen and Sword
Kategori:
Historia
Tillgänglig sedan: februari 2021

E-bok

Cross & Crescent in the Balkans

This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century, one which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor to cross the Dardanelles from Asia into Europe to assist him in one of the civil wars which were tearing the fast-declining Byzantine Empire apart.

One hundred and eight years later the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to what was by then a hugely powerful and expanding empire of the Islamic Ottoman Turks, whose rulers came to see themselves as the natural and legitimate heirs of their Byzantine and indeed Roman predecessors. The book sets the scene, explains the background and tells the story, both military, political, cultural and personal, of the winners and the losers, plus those 'outsiders' who were increasingly being drawn into the dramatic story of the rise of the Ottoman Empire.


Logga in för att låna

Information

Logga in för att låna denna titel och för att se aktuell lånestatus.
Se mer under Så lånar du

Stöds av följande plattformar

PC/Mac

Surfplatta Läsplatta

Smartphone