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" The end of Byzantium / "
Jonathan Harris.
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875577
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Harris, Jonathan.
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| Title & Author
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The end of Byzantium /\ Jonathan Harris.
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| Publication Statement
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New Haven [Conn.] :: Yale University Press,, ©2010.
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xxii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, 3 maps ;; 24 cm
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0300117868
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: 0300187912
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: 9780300117868
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: 9780300187915
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index.
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| Contents
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Autumn in Constantinople -- The shadow empire -- Playing politics -- To the brink -- Twisting the lion's tail -- A Council and a Crusade -- From Murad to Mehmed -- Nemesis -- On the quayside -- East or West?
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By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically toppled the capital's walls. During this bleak and uncertain time, ordinary Byzantines faced difficult decisions to protect their livelihoods and families against the death throes of their homeland.
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In this evocative and moving book, Jonathan Harris explores individual stories of diplomatic manoeuvres, covert defiance, and sheer luck against a backdrop of major historical currents, and he traces Byzantium's legacy through those emigrants and refugees who reached and influenced Italy, Russia, and beyond. Weaving together letters, chronicles, travellers' accounts, and other little-known archival documents, Harris dispels the myth of constant warfare between Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages and offers a new perspective on the real reasons behind the fall of this fascinating cmpire. --Book Jacket.
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History.
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Byzantine Empire, History, Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453.
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Byzantine Empire, History, John VIII Palaeologus, 1425-1448.
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Byzantine Empire, History, Manuel II Palaeologus, 1391-1425.
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Byzantine Empire.
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Byzantinisches Reich
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Byzantinisches Reich.
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Byzantinisches Reich.
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Empire byzantin, fin, 1403, 1453.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.5/03
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DF639.H37 2010
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