Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time - Brossura

Babinger, Franz

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691010781 ISBN 13: 9780691010786

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 1992

Riassunto

From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events in the life of the emperor Mehmed II are the subject of this classic biography. One of the most important figures in Ottoman history, Mehmed was the architect of victories that inspired fear throughout Europe and contributed to an image of the Turk prevalent in Western art and literature for many years. "Fascinating. . . . From the Western viewpoint, Mehmed was seen as the man who gave the death blow to Byzantium, destroying the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire. Not surprisingly, the Turks regard him as the greatest of all sultans, a figure unparalleled in the history of the world for military prowess, statecraft, patronage of the arts and sciences. "--Robert Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times Book Review "The definitive scholarly biography of the Ottoman emperor who in 1453 conquered Constantinople. . . . Mehmed's career is a study of battle, murder, and sudden death, of brutality, perfidy, and spite, with no moral superiority awardable to either Christians or Muslims. "--The New Yorker

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"Fascinating. . . . From the Western viewpoint, Mehmed was seen as the man who gave the death blow to Byzantium, destroying the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire. Not surprisingly, the Turks regard him as the greatest of all sultans, a figure unparalleled in the history of the world for military prowess, statecraft, patronage of the arts and sciences." --Robert Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Contenuti

	List of Illustrations
	Editor's Preface
	Note on Spelling and Transliteration
	Abbreviations
Bk. 1	The Ottoman Empire at Murad's accession	3
	Birth of a prince	9
	Balkan campaigns - Hungarian counteroffensive	16
	The crusade of Varna	27
	A child sultan	41
	The campaign in Greece	44
	Murad's last years	56
Bk. 2	Mehmed's final return to the throne	64
	The fortress on the Bosporus	75
	The fall of Constantinople	87
	Creation of an Ottoman imperial capital	101
	Repercussions in the West	117
	Ottoman expansion into the Aegean	129
	The siege of Belgrade	137
Bk. 3	Ottoman campaigns - Albania, Serbia, and Greece	151
	Papal efforts at Western unification	167
	The last of the Palaeologi	173
	Eastern adventurers and the fall of Trebizond	183
	The pope and the sultan	197
	Vlad the impaler	203
Bk. 4	The subjection of Bosnia	215
	Outbreak of war with Venice	225
	Papal efforts at Crusade	233
	The Ottomans on the Adriatic	251
	Anatolian undertakings	269
	The fall of Negropont	279
	The Mosque of the Conqueror	293
Bk. 5	Uzun Hasan in league with the West	302
	War in the East with Uzun Hasan	309
	The fall of Mahmud Pasha	329
	Deathblow to Genoa's Levantine trade	341
	Ottoman raiders at the gates of Venice and Austria	347
	Mehmed in Walachia and Moldavia	351
	The sieges of Kruje and Shkoder	359
Bk. 6	Peace at last with Venice	369
	Ottoman landing in southeastern Italy	389
	Unsuccessful attack on Rhodes	397
	Mehmed's last campaigns and death	401
Bk. 7	The personality and empire of Mehmed the Conqueror	409
I	The ruler and the man	409
II	State and society	432
III	Art literature and science	462
IV	Mehmed the Conqueror and the West	494
	App. 1. Lists of Rulers and Popes	511
	App. 2. Glossary	513
	Index	515

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691010781
• ISBN 13: 9780691010786
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 616
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile