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Article: Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Franz Babinger. Ed. William C. Hickman. Trans. Ralph Manheim. (Bollingen Series, 96.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Second printing for paperback edition. 24 pl., 11 text figures, 8 maps + xx + 550 pp. $19-95.
The original German edition of this important book was published under the title Mehmed der Eroberer und seine Zeit: Weltensturmer einer Zeitenwende (Munich: F. Bruckman) in 1953 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks, the first time that the conqueror of Constantinople (known as the Fatih) and his times were subjected to critical historical investigation by a highly reputable Orientalist with ...