[bksvol-discuss] 1453
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:39:22 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, Kasondra,
If you put 1453 history into google, you'll get some
sites to go to, but most are a range. The Hundred
Years War apparently ended in 1453, and there are a
lot of sites about that war and that period of
history.
This was an interesting site: ( I googled 1453
England) http://www.portifex.com/Dates/1453.htm
"The Fall of Constantinople, on May 29, 1453, is one
of the most formative, epochal, colorful, and dramatic
episodes in world history..."
http://friesian.com/romania.htm
The Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire and
captured Constantinople in 1453. If you put Ottoman
Empire and 1453 into google you'll get a number of
sites. (Putting in France just got me a lot more sites
about the Hundred Years War.) The Ottoman and
Byzantine Empires are fascinating to read about,
expecially by way of Bertrice Small's novels, wherein
her English heroines get captured and live in that
society for some period of time; we get a lot of info
about the history, customs, food, familial conflicts,
clothing, etc.
I haven't tried putting in the U.S., Spain or Russian,
but you can do that and see what comes up. At these
sites there usually are some book references.
When I put just 1453 into Amazon, I found three books:
a paperback and a hardbound entitled 1453: The Holy
War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the
West, by Roger Crowley, and one paperback, The Fall
of Constantinople 1453 (Canto) by Steven Runciman.
(The Crowley book also showed up in my library
catalog)
GOod luck.
Cindy
P.S. I put in Spain 1453, and got this site: The
Bible: Reformations: 1453-1800 "The Reformation began
in 1453, the year that the Turks captured
Constantinople. ... In 1494, Pope Alexander VI divided
up the New World between Spain and ..."
gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/ref.stm - 18k - Cached -
Similar pages
When I googled novels sset 1453 I got quite a few
references, but they're all set in the Ottoman Empire
or Byzantium
--- Kasondra Payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sometimes I get it in my head to study a specific
> topic just for my own
> personal knowledge. Last night I woke up wondering
> about all the events in
> Europe in the year 1453. I know that is the year
> the Hundred Years War
> ended, but I also know other things happened that
> same year. I have many
> books on European history that I got from bookshare,
> but I wonder if there
> is anything that zeroes in on that exact time
> period. I know I am weird,
> but that�s the way it is. Thanks.
>
> Kasondra Payne
>
>
>
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