{"id":55124,"date":"2026-08-26T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55124"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:55:50","slug":"anthony-kaldellis-1453-the-conquest-and-tragedy-of-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55124","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Kaldellis, \u201e1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anthony Kaldellis offers the first narrative in sixty years of the siege of Constantinople in 1453, an event that marked the end of the Roman empire. The reconstruction of events is detailed, following a day-by-day basis when possible, and is grounded in the testimony of eye-witnesses who left gripping accounts in Latin, Italian, Greek, Russian, and Turkish. Constantinople was still a vibrant center of learning, worship, commerce, and information. The book sketches the shared world of Italians, Turks, and Romans that was thrown into crisis by Mehmed II\u2019s decision to conquer the City. Kaldellis weighs the strategy and options of attackers and defenders, and proves that the defense was hardly a lost cause. The defenders knew what they were doing. They risked their lives, but it was not their intention to become martyrs. Instead, it was the sultan who was scrambling to neutralize a seemingly impregnable defense. That he did so was a testament to his ingenuity and tenacity. The final chapters trace the fate of the vanquished, their captivity, and how some were ransomed. It also weights the impact of the City\u2019s fall on the conquerors, the conquered, and world history. 1453 was not only a symbol for the passing of the Middle Ages and the onset of modernity. It changed the nature of the Ottoman empire and redirected the transmission of cultural legacies, especially of classical scholarship. The fall of Constantinople was a nexus of converging pathways between east and west, medieval and modern, ends and beginnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anthony Kaldellis<\/strong> is a professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has published many books and articles on the history, culture, and literature of Byzantium, ranging from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. His most recent book is a new, comprehensive history of the eastern Roman empire: The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford, 2023). He is also the host of the academic podcast \u201cByzantium &amp; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction<br>1 The Queen of Cities, Still<br>2 Turks, Romans, and Italians<br>3 The Outbreak of War<br>4 The Strategy of the Defenders<br>5 Mehmed\u2019s Plan of Attack<br>6 The Defenses Hold<br>7 Stalemate<br>8 The Final Assault<br>9 Conquerors and Slaves<br>10 Aftermath and Legacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Objavljeno: 2026.<br>ISBN: 9780197549322<br>352 str.<br>Oxford University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-new-roman-empire-9780197549322?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;\">https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-new-roman-empire-9780197549322<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\u201e1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople\u201c Anthonyja Kaldellisa donosi novu rekonstrukciju posljednje opsade Carigrada, u kojoj autor pokazuje da obrana grada nije od po\u010detka bila osu\u0111ena na propast, odnosno da pad carske prijestolnice nije bio unaprijed neizbje\u017ean, kao \u0161to se dugo smatralo."},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1453-Kaldellis.webp?fit=1280%2C736&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55111,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55111","url_meta":{"origin":55124,"position":0},"title":"Anthony Kaldellis, \u201eThe New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"26. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. 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