
1453: the Conquest of Constantinople : 2016 Medieval Warfare Special Edition
The 2014 Medieval Warfare Special issue is entirely dedicated - all 84 pages - to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. It's like a normal issue, except it'll have more pages, more articles, more maps and more illustrations! Medieval Warfare Special 2014: 1453
- The Conquest of Constantinople with:
- Eugenia Russel, Historical introduction
- the destruction of the Oikoumeni
- Kenneth Cline, Constantine XI
- no room to maneuver
- Murat OEzveri, Mehmed 'the Conqueror'
- A sultan of paradoxes
- Nicola Bergamo, Venice, Genoa and Byzantium
- difficult 'trio'
- Konstantin Nossov, The walls of Constantinople
- Stephen Bennett & Nils Visser, The Conquest of Constantinople
- Murray Dahm, Fallout
- Contemporary reactions to the loss of Constantinople
- Lukasz Rozycki, The fall of the Old World through the eyes of the "Polish janissary"
- Raffaele D'Amato, The last defenders
- the Roman army
- Vassilis Pergalias, The final opponents
- the Ottoman army
- Ben Sheppard, Aftermath