Nations That Could Not Save Their Own Name : Why the Byzantine Empire failed before the guns arrived.DE

Language: English

Published by Epubli, 2026

3565552166 / 9783565552160

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Long before the Ottoman cannons were positioned before the Theodosian Walls, the Byzantine Empire had already begun to die from the inside. This book argues that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 was less a military defeat than the final symptom of a political organism that had lost the capacity to sustain itself. The empire that once stretched from Spain to Syria had been reduced to a city-state, its treasury empty, its army composed of foreign mercenaries, its church divided by the failed union with Rome. The narrative traces the fourteenth-century civil wars that exhausted Byzantine resources, the catastrophic reliance on Venetian and Genoese shipping, and the diplomatic isolation that left Constantinople without allies when Mehmed II finally moved. It examines how the Palaiologos dynasty, despite producing capable individuals, could never transcend the structural decay of a bureaucracy that collected taxes from fields it no longer controlled and minted coins of increasingly worthless metal. The siege itself becomes a mirror of this collapse: the defenders fought bravely but could not compensate for a state that had stopped believing in its own future. This is not a story of heroic last stands but of institutional sclerosis, of a government that had perfected the art of postponing collapse until collapse became the only remaining option.

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Title
Nations That Could Not Save Their Own Name : Why the Byzantine Empire failed before the guns arrived.DE
Author
Julian Pike
Publisher
Epubli
Publication year
2026
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3565552166
ISBN 13
9783565552160
Item weight
640 grams
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297x210x11 mm

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