History and Philosophy

The Last Years of Constantinople, 1373–1453: Tamerlane, Mehmed II and the Fall of the City

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.