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First printed in 1965, this is a scholarly and highly accessible review of Constantinople's semester, a meeting which got tumultuous repercussions across both East and Western. Runciman shows the inevitability of the Turkish conquest and the impotence of the Byzantine Empire which, at that time, comprised only 1 ineffectual city. This vivid profile reconstructs the dramatic events which gained the Turks an imperial capital, with a vital physical location, and examines how the Greeks reacted to the devastating blow.
