Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies

Zusatztext "Reinert offers the reader a rewarding insight into one of the most interesting but! at the same time! most problematic periods of the European Middle Ages" - Vlada Stankovic! University of Belgrade Informationen zum Autor Stephen W. Reinert is Associate Professor of History! Rutgers University! New Brunswick! New Jersey! USA. He also directs the Rutgers Modern Greek Studies Program! and served as the Dean of Rutgers Study Abroad 2006-2012. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together studies on the political, religious and socioeconomic interaction between the rising Ottoman Empire and declining Byzantine state at the end of the fourteenth century. They focus on key episodes of that encounter, particularly in connection with Murad I, Bayezid I, and Manuel II Palaiologos. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction! Colin Imber; Fragmentation (1204-1453); From Niš to Kosovo Polje. Reflections on Murād I's final years; A Byzantine source on the battles of Bilea (?) and Kosovo Polje: Kydones' Letters 396 and 398 reconsidered; A Greek view on the Battle of Kosovo: Laonikos Chalkokondyles; Coping with political catastrophe in 1387: representations of nature in Manuel II Palaiologos' Epistolary Discourse to Kabasilas; The Palaiologoi! Yıldırım Bāyezīd and Constantinople: June 1389-March 1391; Political dimensions of Manuel II Palaiologos' 1392 marriage and coronation: some new evidence; What the Genoese cast upon Helena Dragash's head: coins not confecti; Manuel II Palaeologos and his Müderris; The Muslim presence in Constantinople! 9th-15th centuries: some preliminary observations; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen W. Reinert, Reinert Stephen W.
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2013
• EAN: 9780754659402
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-5940-2
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, General & world history, Medieval History, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, General and world history, History and Archaeology