| List of Illustrations | |
| Editor's Preface | |
| Note on Spelling and Transliteration | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Bk. 1 | The Ottoman Empire at Murad's accession | 3 |
| Birth of a prince | 9 |
| Balkan campaigns - Hungarian counteroffensive | 16 |
| The crusade of Varna | 27 |
| A child sultan | 41 |
| The campaign in Greece | 44 |
| Murad's last years | 56 |
| Bk. 2 | Mehmed's final return to the throne | 64 |
| The fortress on the Bosporus | 75 |
| The fall of Constantinople | 87 |
| Creation of an Ottoman imperial capital | 101 |
| Repercussions in the West | 117 |
| Ottoman expansion into the Aegean | 129 |
| The siege of Belgrade | 137 |
| Bk. 3 | Ottoman campaigns - Albania, Serbia, and Greece | 151 |
| Papal efforts at Western unification | 167 |
| The last of the Palaeologi | 173 |
| Eastern adventurers and the fall of Trebizond | 183 |
| The pope and the sultan | 197 |
| Vlad the impaler | 203 |
| Bk. 4 | The subjection of Bosnia | 215 |
| Outbreak of war with Venice | 225 |
| Papal efforts at Crusade | 233 |
| The Ottomans on the Adriatic | 251 |
| Anatolian undertakings | 269 |
| The fall of Negropont | 279 |
| The Mosque of the Conqueror | 293 |
| Bk. 5 | Uzun Hasan in league with the West | 302 |
| War in the East with Uzun Hasan | 309 |
| The fall of Mahmud Pasha | 329 |
| Deathblow to Genoa's Levantine trade | 341 |
| Ottoman raiders at the gates of Venice and Austria | 347 |
| Mehmed in Walachia and Moldavia | 351 |
| The sieges of Kruje and Shkoder | 359 |
| Bk. 6 | Peace at last with Venice | 369 |
| Ottoman landing in southeastern Italy | 389 |
| Unsuccessful attack on Rhodes | 397 |
| Mehmed's last campaigns and death | 401 |
| Bk. 7 | The personality and empire of Mehmed the Conqueror | 409 |
| I | The ruler and the man | 409 |
| II | State and society | 432 |
| III | Art literature and science | 462 |
| IV | Mehmed the Conqueror and the West | 494 |
| App. 1. Lists of Rulers and Popes | 511 |
| App. 2. Glossary | 513 |
| Index | 515 |
Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time
