A New Herodotos: Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West (Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
Anthony Kaldellis examines Laonikos Chalkokondyles's historical writings on the Ottoman Empire, the fall of Byzantium, and the emergence of Western historical thought.
About This Book
This volume presents a detailed examination of Laonikos Chalkokondyles, a fifteenth-century Byzantine historian.
It explores his accounts of the Ottoman Empire's rise and the fall of Byzantium.
The work situates Chalkokondyles within the broader context of late medieval historical writing.
Anthony Kaldellis provides analysis of how these narratives contributed to emerging Western perspectives.
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