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 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.