TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eimer,Christopher
TI  - Mehmet the conqueror and Constantinople: a portrait of youth and ambition 
SN  - 1912667665
AV  - DR501 .E36 2021
U1  - 956.10152092 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Spink and Son Ltd
KW  - Mehmed
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - fast
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Mehmed II, 1451-1481
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - Siege, 1453
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453
KW  - Empire ottoman
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 1451-1481 (Mehmet II)
KW  - İstanbul (Turquie)
KW  - 1453 (Siège)
KW  - Empire byzantin
KW  - 1449-1453 (Constantin XI Paléologue)
KW  - Istanbul
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - In its significance for both Islam and Christianity, and ultimately the wider world, the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453 was to herald the dawn of the early modern period and bring universal recognition to the man forever known as Mehmet the Conqueror, or Sultan Mehmet II (1432-1481); who at the age of twenty-one had brought the millennium-old Byzantine empire to an end.0Little material evidence has survived from the formative period of Mehmet's life, and certainly nothing of any direct significance such as a portrait. However, Mehmet had an enduring interest in that genre, though it was naturally assumed that after an absence of more than five centuries a portrait of the young sultan in any form had simply not survived the intervening period. The appearance of a circular portrait relief of the sultan was thus to be of more than passing interest, given the youthfulness of the turbaned Muslim sitter, who was immediately identifiable as Mehmet the Conqueror from both his modelled bronze relief profile and the titles encircling his portrait, addressing its subject in Latin as the 'Great Prince and Great Emir, Sultan Master Mehmet' - Magnus Princeps et Magnus Amiras Sultanus DNS [= Dominus] Mehomet. The willingness of Mehmet to commit his imperial vision to the hands of a western artist at such an early period of his life is at the heart of this extraordinary episode, which embraces the looming extinction of the millennium-old empire of Byzantium, an expanding Ottoman political enterprise and the fall of Constantinople itself
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