This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

Indeed, although the title for this evening is a “Musical Tribute to the Fall of Constantinople,” and we have heard truly resplendent melodious laments, we are gathered to not merely remember the ...

The Ottoman-Byzantine War series of conflicts from- - 1299 to 1453, led to the fall of Constantinople- - the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 1453. The Ottomans, under leaders such as Sultan ...

One of them, Hagia Sophia, was once the grandest cathedral in the Christian world until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, followed by a three days of unbridled pillage. Hagia ...

In a note at the end, the author admits he is “labouring in [the] shadow” of classics such as Steven Runciman’s “The Fall of ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous ...

At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of ...

At Oxford, where he got his Ph.D., he focused on the interplay of climate and pathogens in the Roman Empire. He is now the ...