The Histories - Books 1-5

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Chalkokondyles Laonikos
• Assisted by: Anthony Kaldellis (Translation), Kaldellis Anthony (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2014
• EAN: 9780674599185
• ISBN: 978-0-674-59918-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Byzantine Empire