WebMay 18, 2015 · Chalkokondyles is by far the most complex and difficult of the four. His language, based on Thucydidean style and austerity, is dense, has lacunae, misses … WebAmong 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 […]

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WebAslıhan Akışık received her PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation titled “Self and Other in the Renaissance: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals” (History and Middle Eastern Studies, 2013). Her research was funded by a dissertation completion fellowship from Harvard University and an Onassis Public Benefit Foundati... WebOutlining Turkish historiography between 15th and 20th centuries, this reasearch narrates the general facts and the assesments on those general facts concerning Turkish historiography beginning with the foundation of Ottoman Empire from early 15th … untereck hollenthon

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WebThis companion to the two-volume Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation of The Histories by Laonikos Chalkokondyles is the first book-length investigation of an author who has been poorly studied. Providing biographical and intellectual context for Laonikos, Anthony Kaldellis shows how the author synthesized his classical ... Webtoday: J. Harris, “Laonikos Chalkokondyles and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 27 (2003) 153–170, here 165 n.36, states that … WebAbstract. No event known to Laonikos need be dated later than ca. 1464, and the terminus ante quem is 1468: writing some 25 years earlier than has been thought, he is the first of the extant ... reckless foolhardy