Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time

By: William C. Hickman (Editor), Franz Babinger, Ralph Manheim (Translator)

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Paperback | 8 November 1992

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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

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