"Studies of early modern Middle Eastern cities, whether classified as Islamic, Arab, or Ottoman, have stressed the atypical, the idiosyncratic, or the aberrant. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that these cities were in some way substandard or deviant. One…
"Studies of early modern Middle Eastern cities, whether classified as Islamic, Arab, or Ottoman, have stressed the atypical, the idiosyncratic, or the aberrant. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that these cities were in some way substandard or deviant. One…
Constantinople 1453: the end of Byzantium
by Nicolle, David, Hook, Christa
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Den tyrkiske sultan Mehmet Erobreren belejrede Konstantinopel i fire måneder i 1453, hvilket førte til det byzantinske riges fald
The walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453
by Dennis, Peter, Turnbull, Stephen R.
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Byzantinske Rige. Østromerske Rige. Græske Kejserdømme. Beskrivelse af det Byzantinske Rige 600-1453 e. Kr. herunder det politiske liv, rigets naboer og fjender, den byzantinske krigsmagts organisation og taktik.
"The book examines the origins, development, and the role of the monastic movement in the capital of Byzantium. It was in the 5th century that a certain pattern of the functioning of monastic circles evolved within the specific framework of the ecclesiastical structures of Const…