A New Herodotos: Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West

by Anthony Kaldellis

This companion to the two-volume Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation of the Histories by Laonikos Chalkokondyles is the first book-length investigation of an author who has been poorly studied. Providing biographical and intellectual context for Laonikos, Anthony Kaldellis shows how the author synthesized his classical models to fashion his own distinctive voice and persona as a historian.

Indebted to his teacher...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884024016
• ISBN13: 9780884024019
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"