A new Herodotos : Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the fall of Byzantium, and the emergence of the West / Anthony Kaldellis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaldellis, Anthony
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 1
Subjects:
Byzantine Empire > History > 1081-1453.
Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, > approximately 1430-approximately 1490.
Greece > History > 323-1453.
Turkey > History > 1288-1453.
Civilization, Western > History.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Physical Description:xiii, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • From Nikolaos to Laonikos
  • The marriage of Herodotos and Thucydides
  • Geography and ethnography
  • Religion, Islam, and the Turks
  • Between Greeks and Romans
  • Plethon, Laonikos, and the birth of neohellenism
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. Laonikos of Athens was not Laonikos of Chania
  • Appendix 2. Laonikos and fourteenth-century Athenian history
  • Appendix 3. Herodotean expressions in the histories
  • Appendix 4. The known history of Laur. 70.6 between 1318 and 1480.