Book Description
A detailed description of the walls of Byzantine Constantinople with illustrations, maps and plans.
Author : Alexander Van Millingen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108014569
A detailed description of the walls of Byzantine Constantinople with illustrations, maps and plans.
Author : George Byron Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Granville Baker
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782002502
The walls of Constantinople are the greatest surviving example of European medieval military architecture in the world. They withstood numerous sieges until being finally overcome by the artillery of Mehmet the Conqueror in 1453, and exist today as a time capsule of Byzantine and Medieval history. This book examines the main defensive system protecting the landward side of the city, which consisted of three parallel walls about 5 miles long. The walls defended the city against intruders, including Attila the Hun, before finally being breached by European knights during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and, ultimately, destroyed by Turkish artillery in 1453.
Author : Alexander van Millingen
Publisher : Elibron Classics
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781402184543
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John Murray in London, 1899.
Author : Gordon Doherty
Publisher : Gordon Doherty
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The war at Troy has raged for ten years. Its final throes will echo through eternity… 1258 BC: Surrounded and outnumbered by the army of Agamemnon, King Priam and his Trojan forces fight desperately to defend their city. In the lulls between battle, all talk inevitably turns to the mighty ally that has not yet arrived to their aid. Agamemnon will weep for mercy, the Trojans say, when the eastern horizons darken with the endless ranks of the Hittite Empire. King Hattu has endured a miserable time since claiming the Hittite throne. Vassals distance themselves while rival empires circle, mocking him as an illegitimate king. Worst of all, the army of the Hittites is but a memory, destroyed in the civil war that won him the throne. Knowing that he must honour his empire’s oath to protect Troy, he sets off for Priam’s city with almost nothing, praying that the dreams he has endured since his youth – of Troy in ruins – can be thwarted. All the way, an ancient mantra rings in his head: Hittites should always heed their dreams.
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782002243
The walls of Constantinople are the greatest surviving example of European medieval military architecture in the world. They withstood numerous sieges until being finally overcome by the artillery of Mehmet the Conqueror in 1453, and exist today as a time capsule of Byzantine and Medieval history. This book examines the main defensive system protecting the landward side of the city, which consisted of three parallel walls about 5 miles long. The walls defended the city against intruders, including Attila the Hun, before finally being breached by European knights during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and, ultimately, destroyed by Turkish artillery in 1453.
Author : Cyril Mango
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 135194942X
From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume, containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the city’s European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export, communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.
Author : James Heneage
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782061134
'One hell of a fine book' Conn Iggulden IN AN AGE OF CLASHING EMPIRES, DARK FORCES FROM THE EAST ENDANGER THE FIRST LIGHT OF THE WESTERN RENAISSANCE... It is an age of ruthless rulers, divided churches, fractured dynasties and intrepid traders. It is an age of great cities like Venice and Constantinople; an age of conquerors like Tamerlane who will drown the world in blood; an age when only a hero of exceptional gifts can make a difference. Luke Magoris is that hero. A hero who will find himself committed to a long journey to discover - and try to avoid - his destiny. He will travel from battle to trading fortune, from horse dealing to captivity, and to the love of three very different women and the unrelenting enmity of two remarkable men.
Author : Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004116252
This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.