An original and valuable approach to a historical document based on rare sources and authentic testimonies! This book, the result of systematic, thorough, and above all, reliable research, is a captivating historical study of Constantine Palaiologos and the Fall of Constantinople.

Eyewitnesses and historians of the time compose a work of particular historical significance through unique sources - a plethora of texts that exist in their original language but not in Greek.

A historical narrative about the Palaiologos family, the background of the succession leading up to Constantine, his reign, as well as the Fall, viewed through the eyes of different chroniclers whose works are hard to find - Franz, Doukas, and Barbaro - makes this historical book unique.

A valuable book for understanding an era, a Emperor and Political Man, a people...