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020 $a1912667665$qhardcover
020 $a9781912667666$qhardcover
035 $a(OCoLC)1240414283
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050 4 $aDR501$b.E36 2021
082 04 $a956.10152092$223
100 1 $aEimer, Christopher,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMehmet the conqueror and Constantinople :$ba portrait of youth and ambition /$cChristopher Eimer.
264 1 $aLondon :$bSpink and Son Ltd,$c2021.
300 $ax, 81 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 8 $aIn 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.
600 00 $aMehmed$bII,$cSultan of the Turks,$d1432-1481.
600 00 $aMehmed$bII,$cSultan of the Turks,$d1432-1481$vPortraits.
600 07 $aMehmed$bII,$cSultan of the Turks,$d1432-1481.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00057826
651 0 $aTurkey$xKings and rulers.
651 0 $aTurkey$xHistory$yMehmed II, 1451-1481.
651 0 $aIstanbul (Turkey)$xHistory$ySiege, 1453.
651 0 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory$yConstantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453.
651 6 $aEmpire ottoman$xHistoire$y1451-1481 (Mehmet II)
651 6 $aİstanbul (Turquie)$xHistoire$y1453 (Siège)
651 6 $aEmpire byzantin$xHistoire$y1449-1453 (Constantin XI Paléologue)
650 7 $aKings and rulers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00987694
651 7 $aByzantine Empire.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01209292
651 7 $aTurkey.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208963
651 7 $aTurkey$zIstanbul.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204833
647 7 $aSiege of Istanbul$c(Istanbul, Turkey :$d1453)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01354811
648 7 $a1448-1481$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
852 00 $bglx$hDR501$i.E36 2021