A period in European history marked by efforts to reform the Christian Church
A retelling of Durant's account of the Balkans in the fourteenth century: Stefan Dušan's Serbian empire and its collapse, the Ottoman crossing into Europe, the fall of Adrianople, and the battles of Maritsa, Kosovo and Nicopolis that brought most of the Balkans under Ottoman rule.
A retelling of Durant's account of the final decades of the Eastern Roman Empire: its vassalage to the Ottomans, the reprieve brought by Tamerlane at Ankara, the divisions that kept Christendom from uniting, and the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453 and its consequences for Europe.
