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1 juillet 2021
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Predictions Mechanical perspective Linear perspective Architectural perspective Millennium Medieval history History, Medieval Middle Ages--History Medieval period World history, Medieval Dark Ages comptabilitéCiter ce document
Rike Szill, « Prophecies and (Hi)Stories: Telling the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 », German Historical Institute London Blog, ID : 10670/1.hxi7jr
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From a Euro-Mediterranean perspective, the conquest of Constantinople led by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 not only marked the end of the Byzantine empire that had lasted more than a millennium, but also the end of the European Middle Ages. Rightly considered a ‘moment of great historical significance’ ((The Siege of Constantinople 1453: Seven Contemporary Accounts, ed. by John Melville-Jones (Amsterdam, 1972), vii.)) by both contemporaries and modern researchers, the conquest of Const...