The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence

First published in 1968, this classic study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople traces the Grecian church's survival as the spiritual center of the Byzantine world during the four centuries of Turkish rule which followed the fall of Constantinople.

• Author
• Steven Runciman

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 468

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521313100

• Genres
• history, religion, christianity

• Release date
• 1985