Mehmed the Conqueror and his time /
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| Author / Creator: | Babinger, Franz, 1891-1967. |
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| Uniform title: | Mehmed der Eroberer und seine Zeit. Anglais |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. for the pbk. ed. |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1992. |
| Description: | xx, 549 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bollingen series ; 96 |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6623306 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Editor's Preface
- Note on Spelling and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Bk. 1. The Ottoman Empire at Murad's accession
- Birth of a prince
- Balkan campaigns - Hungarian counteroffensive
- The crusade of Varna
- A child sultan
- The campaign in Greece
- Murad's last years
- Bk. 2. Mehmed's final return to the throne
- The fortress on the Bosporus
- The fall of Constantinople
- Creation of an Ottoman imperial capital
- Repercussions in the West
- Ottoman expansion into the Aegean
- The siege of Belgrade
- Bk. 3. Ottoman campaigns - Albania, Serbia, and Greece
- Papal efforts at Western unification
- The last of the Palaeologi
- Eastern adventurers and the fall of Trebizond
- The pope and the sultan
- Vlad the impaler
- Bk. 4. The subjection of Bosnia
- Outbreak of war with Venice
- Papal efforts at Crusade
- The Ottomans on the Adriatic
- Anatolian undertakings
- The fall of Negropont
- The Mosque of the Conqueror
- Bk. 5. Uzun Hasan in league with the West
- War in the East with Uzun Hasan
- The fall of Mahmud Pasha
- Deathblow to Genoa's Levantine trade
- Ottoman raiders at the gates of Venice and Austria
- Mehmed in Walachia and Moldavia
- The sieges of Kruje and Shkoder
- Bk. 6. Peace at last with Venice
- Ottoman landing in southeastern Italy
- Unsuccessful attack on Rhodes
- Mehmed's last campaigns and death
- Bk. 7. The personality and empire of Mehmed the Conqueror
- I. The ruler and the man
- II. State and society
- III. Art literature and science
- IV. Mehmed the Conqueror and the West
- App. 1.. Lists of Rulers and Popes
- App. 2.. Glossary
- Index