Title: The emperor's winding sheet.
Authors: Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937-2020
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1974
Subjects: Byzantine Empire History Juvenile fiction.
Abstract: Piers Barber, a shipwrecked, hungry and lost English boy, finds his way into the court of the Emperor Constantine where he is interpreted as a symbol of good luck and, as such, ordered to be kept always near the king. Through his eyes we witness the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the siege that marked the end of the proud but corrupt ancient Byzantine Empire.