Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

Many Greek Orthodox churches were transformed into mosques after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The same holds true of the emblematic Hagia Sophia, which was converted into a mosque only a few ...

The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias ...

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantine legal system also profoundly influenced the development of Western law.

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

Inside 1453 the new Ottoman conquest out of Constantinople is a major strike to Christendom ... try kitsch lightning unit ...

For example, questions of how Greek memories of the destruction of Constantinople in 1207 A.D., by Latin Europeans, commingle with the eventual Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453 A.D. can be ...

Saint Paul was from Thessalonica. He became the secretary of Alexander, Patriarch of Constantinople (see Aug. 30), a deacon, and then the successor of Saint Alexander in about 337. Because of his ...