Dimiter Angelov (Massachusetts Harvard University)

The Byzantine Hellene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 493
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 173mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 856g
• ISBN-13: 9781108727952
• ISBN-10: 1108727956
• Artikelnr.: 66896860

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.