Author: Siren Çelik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836593
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
New portrait of Manuel II Palaiologos, investigating his tumultuous reign, literary, philosophical and theological oeuvre and personal life.
Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)
Author: Siren Çelik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836593
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
New portrait of Manuel II Palaiologos, investigating his tumultuous reign, literary, philosophical and theological oeuvre and personal life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836593
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
New portrait of Manuel II Palaiologos, investigating his tumultuous reign, literary, philosophical and theological oeuvre and personal life.
Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425)
Author: Siren Çelik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108812627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few Byzantine emperors had a life as rich and as turbulent as Manuel II Palaiologos. A fascinating figure at the crossroads of Byzantine, Western European and Ottoman history, he endured political turmoil, witnessed no less than three sieges by the Ottomans and travelled as far as France and England. He was a prolific writer, producing a vast corpus of literary, theological and philosophical works. Yet, despite his talent, Manuel has largely been ignored as an author. This biography constructs an in-depth picture of him of as a ruler, author and personality, as well as providing insight into his world and times. It offers the first analysis of the emperor's complete oeuvre, focusing on his literary style, self-representation philosophical/theological thought. By focusing not only on political events, but also on the personality, personal life and literary output of Manuel, this biography paints a new portrait of a multifaceted emperor.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108812627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few Byzantine emperors had a life as rich and as turbulent as Manuel II Palaiologos. A fascinating figure at the crossroads of Byzantine, Western European and Ottoman history, he endured political turmoil, witnessed no less than three sieges by the Ottomans and travelled as far as France and England. He was a prolific writer, producing a vast corpus of literary, theological and philosophical works. Yet, despite his talent, Manuel has largely been ignored as an author. This biography constructs an in-depth picture of him of as a ruler, author and personality, as well as providing insight into his world and times. It offers the first analysis of the emperor's complete oeuvre, focusing on his literary style, self-representation philosophical/theological thought. By focusing not only on political events, but also on the personality, personal life and literary output of Manuel, this biography paints a new portrait of a multifaceted emperor.
A Historical Biography of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425).
Author: Siren Celik
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Languages : en
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Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453)
Author: Marios Philippides
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351055402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Constantine XI’s last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produces a more balanced portrait of an intriguing individual: the last emperor of Constantinople. To be sure, the last of the Greek Caesars was a fascinating figure, not so much because he was a great statesman, as he was not, and not because of his military prowess, as he was neither a notable tactician nor a soldier of exceptional merit. This monarch may have formulated grandiose plans but his hopes and ambitions were ultimately doomed, because he failed to inspire his own subjects, who did not rally to his cause. Constantine lacked the skills to create, restore, or maintain harmony in his troubled realm. In addition, he was ineffective on the diplomatic front, as he proved unable to stimulate Latin Christendom to mount an expedition and come to the aid of south-eastern Orthodox Europe. Yet in sharp contrast to his numerous shortcomings, his military defeats, and the various disappointments during his reign, posterity still fondly remembers the last Constantine.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351055402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Constantine XI’s last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produces a more balanced portrait of an intriguing individual: the last emperor of Constantinople. To be sure, the last of the Greek Caesars was a fascinating figure, not so much because he was a great statesman, as he was not, and not because of his military prowess, as he was neither a notable tactician nor a soldier of exceptional merit. This monarch may have formulated grandiose plans but his hopes and ambitions were ultimately doomed, because he failed to inspire his own subjects, who did not rally to his cause. Constantine lacked the skills to create, restore, or maintain harmony in his troubled realm. In addition, he was ineffective on the diplomatic front, as he proved unable to stimulate Latin Christendom to mount an expedition and come to the aid of south-eastern Orthodox Europe. Yet in sharp contrast to his numerous shortcomings, his military defeats, and the various disappointments during his reign, posterity still fondly remembers the last Constantine.
The Immortal Emperor
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The first biography of the last Byzantine Emperor.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The first biography of the last Byzantine Emperor.
The Byzantine Hellene
Author: Dimiter Angelov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Tells the story of Theodore Laskaris, a thirteenth-century Byzantine emperor, imaginative philosopher, and ideologue of Hellenism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Tells the story of Theodore Laskaris, a thirteenth-century Byzantine emperor, imaginative philosopher, and ideologue of Hellenism.
Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins
Author: Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521877385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book examines Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. It explores the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants, the urban populace, peasants, and members of ecclesiastical and monastic circles in three major areas of the Byzantine Empire in their social and economic context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521877385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book examines Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. It explores the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants, the urban populace, peasants, and members of ecclesiastical and monastic circles in three major areas of the Byzantine Empire in their social and economic context.
Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
Author: Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033306
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033306
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900442461X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900442461X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
Author: Graham Speake
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135942064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1941
Book Description
Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135942064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1941
Book Description
Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.