1453: The Conquest of Constantinople

The 2014 Medieval Warfare Special Issue is entirely dedicated - all 84 pages - to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. It's like a normal issue, except it'll have more pages, more articles, more maps and more illustrations!

Medieval Warfare Special 2014: 1453 - The Conquest of Constantinople with:

- Eugenia Russel, Historical introduction – the destruction of the Oikoumeni
- Kenneth Cline, Constantine XI – no room to maneuver
- Murat Özveri, Mehmed ‘the Conqueror’ – A sultan of paradoxes
- Nicola Bergamo, Venice, Genoa and Byzantium – difficult ‘trio'
- Konstantin Nossov, The walls of Constantinople
- Stephen Bennett & Nils Visser, The Conquest of Constantinople
- Murray Dahm, Fallout – Contemporary reactions to the loss of Constantinople
- Lukasz Rozycki, The fall of the Old World through the eyes of the “Polish janissary”
- Raffaele D’Amato, The last defenders – the Roman army
- Vassilis Pergalias, The final opponents – the Ottoman army
- Ben Sheppard, Aftermath