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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

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