Du concile de Chalcédoine à la mort de Zénon (451-491), les nombreux revirements manifestés par l’autorité impériale montrent l’incertitude d’un rapport de force qui met aux prises deux puissances ecclésiales principales : le siège de Constantinople et son concurrent monophysite d’Alexandrie. L’affrontement auquel ils se livrent, souvent abordé de manière cloisonnée ou anachron...(展开全部)

Du concile de Chalcédoine à la mort de Zénon (451-491), les nombreux revirements manifestés par l’autorité impériale montrent l’incertitude d’un rapport de force qui met aux prises deux puissances ecclésiales principales : le siège de Constantinople et son concurrent monophysite d’Alexandrie. L’affrontement auquel ils se livrent, souvent abordé de manière cloisonnée ou anachron...(展开全部)

This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city’s plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest meant the e...(展开全部)

This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city’s plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest meant the e...(展开全部)

A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter...(展开全部)

‘I shall tell the story of the tremendous perils and the loss of Constantinople, which I observed at close quarters with my own eyes.’ Leonard of Chios. Constantinople: The Last Great Siege tells the story of one of the great forgotten events of world history - the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in1453. For a thousand years Constantinople was quite simply the city:...(展开全部)

‘I shall tell the story of the tremendous perils and the loss of Constantinople, which I observed at close quarters with my own eyes.’ Leonard of Chios. Constantinople: The Last Great Siege tells the story of one of the great forgotten events of world history - the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in1453. For a thousand years Constantinople was quite simply the city:...(展开全部)

A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter...(展开全部)

克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯，法国著名的社会人类学家、哲学家，法兰西科学院院士，结构主义人类创始人。早年在巴黎大学主修哲学与法律，1934-1937年在巴西圣保罗大学教授社会学，并从事巴西土著之田野研究。1948年返法，1959年出任法兰西学院教授。作为20世纪最伟大的人类学家之一，他的影响波及人类学、语言学、哲学、历史等诸多领域。主要著有《结构人类学家》（1～２）、《神话学》（4卷）、《野性的思维》等。

纪尧姆·米索，生于一九七四年的法国新锐作家。少时即钟情写作，九十年代在纽约的生活影响了其日后的创作。二00一年登上文坛，作品包括《后来……》、《救救我！》等。其小说已被多国译介，并将被改编为电影。