The Fall of Constantinople (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Peak Grizzly Publishing, 2026

9798907140127

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Paperback. The Roman Empire ended on a Tuesday morning in May 1453. Almost nobody counts it.Most readers learn that Rome fell in 476. The people living in Constantinople would have found that claim bewildering. They called themselves Romans. Their emperor stood in an unbroken line, their courts ran on Roman law, and their capital was the city Constantine himself had founded. When the walls finally came down under Ottoman cannon, the thing that ended was not a Greek kingdom with a Roman nickname. It was the Roman state - eleven hundred years after everyone stopped paying attention to it.The siege is one of the great set pieces in military history, and it was a genuinely close-run thing. Constantine XI held fourteen miles of wall with perhaps seven thousand men. Mehmed II, a sultan of twenty-one whom everyone underestimated, brought as many as eighty thousand - and the largest cannon ever built, cast by a Hungarian engineer who had offered the gun to the defenders first and been told they could not afford it. For fifty-three days the Theodosian Walls, which had turned back every attacker for a thousand years, very nearly held again. Then Mehmed dragged his warships over a hill.But this is also a book about the cargo. For fifty years before the fall and for decades after, Greek scholars carried manuscripts west - teaching Greek to Italians who had not been able to read it for seven centuries, and putting Plato, Ptolemy, Archimedes and Homer back into the hands of the Latin West. They did not know they were seeding the Renaissance. The city fell. The library got out.What you'll learn: Why "Byzantine" is a label invented in 1557, and why the empire it describes was simply RomeHow the Fourth Crusade of 1204 inflicted the wound the empire never recovered fromHow Orban's twenty-seven-foot bombard was cast, hauled a hundred and forty miles, and fired seven times a dayThe arithmetic of the defence: seven thousand men, fourteen miles of wall, and no relief comingHow seventy Ottoman warships crossed a ridge on greased rollers in a single nightWho Chrysoloras, Bessarion and Plethon were, what they carried, and what the West could suddenly readThe honest answer to the counterfactual: would Plato have reached the West anyway?This book is for you if: You want the siege told day by day - and want to know what it meant, not just how it wentYou suspect the story you learned about Rome falling in 476 is only half the storyYou are drawn to the hinge moments where one technology quietly retires anotherYou care about how knowledge survives - and how close it can come to not survivingYou prefer history that respects your intelligence over history that shoutsThe empire that died on a Tuesday, and the library that got out ahead of it - read the whole story. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
The Fall of Constantinople (Paperback)
Autor
Shane Larson
Verlag
Peak Grizzly Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-13
9798907140127

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