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The Histories, Volume II: Books 6-10 (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
Laonikos Chalkokondyles
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Hardcover. Laonikos was one of the Greek historians of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the first Greek writer to treat Islam as a legitimate cultural and religious system. He viewed Byzantines as Greeks rather than Romans, and his Histories> of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire stands at the origins of Neo-Hellenic identity. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 566 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 211 x 34. Weight in Grams: 694.
Among Greek histories of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the work of Laonikos (ca. 1430-ca. 1465) has by far the broadest scope. Born to a leading family of Athens under Florentine rule, he was educated in the Classics at Mistra by the Neoplatonist philosopher Plethon. In the 1450s, Laonikos set out to imitate Herodotos in writing the history of his times, a version in which the armies of Asia would prevail over the Greeks in Europe. The backbone of the Histories, a text written in difficult Thucydidean Greek, is the expansion of the Ottoman Empire from the early ... Read more
Among Greek histories of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the work of Laonikos (ca. 1430-ca. 1465) has by far the broadest scope. Born to a leading family of Athens under Florentine rule, he was educated in the Classics at Mistra by the Neoplatonist philosopher Plethon. In the 1450s, Laonikos set out to imitate Herodotos in writing the history of his times, a version in which the armies of Asia would prevail over the Greeks in Europe. The backbone of the Histories, a text written in difficult Thucydidean Greek, is the expansion of the Ottoman Empire from the early ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Condition
New
Weight
693g
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674599192
SKU
V9780674599192
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About Laonikos Chalkokondyles
Anthony Kaldellis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. He is the author of many books, including The Christian Parthenon, Hellenism in Byzantium, and The Byzantine Republic, which have been translated into French, Greek, and Russian.
Reviews for The Histories, Volume II: Books 6-10 (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
There is much here that would appeal to readers interested specifically in Byzantine history, and more generally in the history of the east Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Turkey in the 14th and 15th centuries. The translation flows smoothly and is accompanied by much needed explanatory notes on persons and geography.
(04/01/2015)
(04/01/2015)