Byzantine Hellene - The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris Byzantium in Thirteenth

The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling over a Byzantine state in exile after the disastrous Fourth Crusade, illuminate the transformation of the politics and culture of Byzantium and unveil little-known aspects of the medieval encounters between the Greek East and the Latin West.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Byzantium in exile; 2. 'The Holy Land, my mother Anatolia'; 3. 'I was brought up as usual for a royal child'; 4. Pursuit of learning; 5. Power-sharing; 6. Friends, foes, and politics; 7. Elena and the embassy of the Marquis; 8. Sole emperor of the Romans; 9. The philosopher; 10. The proponent of Hellenism; Epilogue; Appendix I: the chronology of the works of Theodore Laskaris; Appendix II: chronology of the letters; Appendix III: the mystery illness; Appendix IV: the manuscript portraits; Appendix V: the burial sarcophagus.

About the author

Dimiter Angelov is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University, Massachusetts. His publications include Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204–1330 (Cambridge, 2007) and Church and Society in Late Byzantium (edited, 2009).

Product details

• Authors: Dimiter Angelov, Dimiter (Harvard University Angelov, Angelov Dimiter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781108727952
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72795-2
• No. of pages: 493
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / General, Turkey, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Biography: historical, political and military, Byzantine Empire, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299