The Conquest of Constantinople: Special (PDF)

Medieval Warfare Special 1: 1453 - The Conquest of Constantinople with

• Eugenia Russel, Historical introduction – the destruction of the Oikoumeni
• Kenneth Cline, Constantine XI – no room to maneuver
• Murat Özveri, Mehmed ‘the Conqueror’ – A sultan of paradoxes
• Nicola Bergamo, Venice, Genoa and Byzantium – difficult ‘trio'
• Konstantin Nossov, The walls of Constantinople
• Stephen Bennett & Nils Visser, The Conquest of Constantinople
• Murray Dahm, Fallout – Contemporary reactions to the loss of Constantinople
• Lukasz Rozycki, The fall of the Old World through the eyes of the “Polish janissary”
• Raffaele D’Amato, The last defenders – the Roman army
• Vassilis Pergalias, The final opponents – the Ottoman army
• Ben Sheppard, Aftermath