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

Title

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

Author

Kaldellis, Anthony

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2014]
©2014

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Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490.

Description

xiii, 310 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"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 Plethon for his global outlook, Laonikos was one of the first historians to write with a pluralist’s sympathy for non-Greek ethnic groups, including Islamic ones. His was the first secular and neutral account of Islam written in Greek. Kaldellis deeply explores the ethnic dynamics that explicitly and implicitly undergird the Histories, which recount the rise of the Ottoman empire and the decline of the Byzantine empire, all in the context of expanding western power. Writing at once in antique and contemporary modes, Laonikos transformed “barbarian” oral traditions into a classicizing historiography that was both Greek and Ottoman in outlook. Showing that he was instrumental in shifting the self-definition of his people from Roman to the Western category of “Greek,” Kaldellis provides a stimulating account of the momentous transformations of the mid-fifteenth century."--

Series Statement

Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; supplement to DOML 33-34

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library 33-34 supplement.

Alternative Title

Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the fall of Byzantium, and the emergence of the West

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Note

Companion to the two-volume Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (v. 33 & 34) edition and translation of The Histories (i.e. De rebus Turcicis) by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

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's knowledge offourteenth-century Athenian history -- Appendix 3. Herodotean expressions in Laonikos -- Appendix 4. The known history of Laur. 70.6 between 1318 and 1480.

ISBN

9780884024019
0884024016

LCCN

^^2014014253

OCLC

876010526
SCSB-11335124

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library