Saving Byzantium - Laura Bolick

In this compelling, readable and revisionist book, historian Laura Bolick challenges the traditional argument that the Byzantine Empire’s fate, in the final decades of the fifteenth century, was inevitable collapse. Basing her opinion on the activities of two significant Byzantine officials, Iohannes Bessarion and Isidore of Kiev, Laura Bolick analyses the efforts that they made to galvanise the Roman Catholic west into forming a crusade that would defend Constantinople from the encroaching Ottoman... Zobrazit více