The emperor's winding sheet.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1974
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- History -- Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453 -- Juvenile fiction.
Description: 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.