... to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453; the way in which its propagandistic potential is exploited to the full by contemporary Turkish historians is highlighted. Throughout the chapter the Turks are shown as exemplary upholders of Sunni Islam and jihad fighters against the Christian infidel, both...

... as the first step in a much wider process in which Turkish-led dynasties definitively defeated the Crusaders and eventually came to control the entire Middle East. For scholars nowadays, Manzikert can be seen as a distant but key precursor of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. And in the minds of the many...

...From the end of the third century, Rome ceased to be the emperors' principal residence. In the wake of intrigues in Constantinople in 400–402, the Goths who were settled in the Balkans and Illyria made a move towards Italy. This chapter shows that the expedition of the Vandals against Rome...

...This chapter studies the role and treatment of Constantinople in some of Woolf’s novels. In Mrs Dalloway, Constantinople is briefly figured as an area of sexual crisis, while a classic view of it is presented in The Voyage Out. The next paragraphs centre...

... power. It includes two case studies, further exploring some crucial arguments. The first is an analysis of the social structure and relations in a provincial milieu, Serres, and the second focuses on Constantinople, an urban milieu, in the last century of the empire, when some major changes occurred...

...Nicetas Choniates’s History contains a famous lament for the fall of Constantinople in 1204 to the crusaders. It is beautifully phrased, but so conventional that it tells us very little about the emotional reaction of the Byzantines to a dreadful event. More interesting...

... the Deacon violence marriage war Geometres John Michael Psellos celibacy women threatening Akolouthia for Nikephoros II Phokas historiography Masculinity Byzantine Constantinople Medieval Homosociality Nikephoros II Phokas Christianity Late Antiquity I believe that when we do history, we...

... thus received, during the ‘open sea’ months between April and October, supply convoys organised by the state to offset the inadequacy of private commerce in satisfying the city's requirements. The goods were stored in the horrea situated by the Tiber. The founding of Constantinople gradually deprived...

... established a clear modus vivendi, in Iaroslav’s Rus’ their relationship was just being formulated. St. Sophia of Kiev had to adapt to its prince and Christian decorum had to accommodate to the princely patron. Churches Constantinople Iaroslav the ‘Wise’ prince of Rus’ Laughter musical performance Rus...

... and the provision of aid to migrants were crucial to Ottoman claims to sovereignty and international legitimacy. First, in the 1860s, the Ottoman government developed techniques to administer migrants in response to concerns raised by members of the Constantinople Superior Health Council, an entity comprised...

...-Ottoman relations, combining Orientalist perspectives with a human-centred version of the picturesque. Liston offers astute commentaries on people, places, and events – including a plague-ridden Constantinople, the harem of the Grand Vizier’s deputy, the presentation of ambassadors in the Seraglio...