Mehmed II the Conqueror: And the Fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turks: Some Western Views and Testimonies

Translated by Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
2007 | 430 + xiv pp. | 21 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-434-6 | MRTS 302
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Edited, Translated, and Annotated by Marios Philippides

This book represents a significant contribution to late Byzantine and early Ottoman studies and also adds to our knowledge of the Latin Levant and certain aspects of Renaissance history. There is a substantial literature on the fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman advance in the Aegean that followed. This collection of sources deals with the period 1453 to 1481 and includes both historical and ethnographic material. The texts chosen range from eyewitness to well-informed accounts of events. It was through texts of this nature that western Europe attempted to understand the nature of the enemy. These important texts of the original editions go back to the 15th and 16th centuries and are difficult to obtain.