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, ...

The Siege of Constantinople, subtitled "The End of the Middles Ages 1453 A.D.", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the land combat during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The siege of Constantinople in 1394–1402 was a long blockade of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. Already in 1391, the rapid Ottoman conquests in the Balkans had cut ...

Three years ago, Roger Crowley published an account of the siege of Constantinople that gave Runciman’s classic on the subject a run for its money. A superb summary of the forces that met in that ...

One of the greatest rivalries in history, the contest between England and France lasted for many centuries. The animosity between the two nations led them to become bitter enemies who fought against ...