Laonikos Chalkokondyles. History. Book II
Translation from Greek into Russian by Evgeny A. Khvalkov
Keywords:
Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman beylik, Constantinople, Orhan, Murad I, Manuel PalaeologusAbstract
Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1430–1490) is a famous Byzantine historian and humanist of the fifteenth century. Laonikos was born in 1430 in Athens and was educated in Constantinople, where he studied rhetoric, philosophy and ancient literature. Later, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Chalkokondyles moved to Italy, where he became involved in the humanistic circles of the Italian Renaissance. His «Histories» in ten volumes is noteworthy as a monument to late Byzantine literature of the Palaeologan period with its mimesis and tendency towards archaization and atticization. His «Histories» with references to antiquity, covers events from the beginning of the formation of the Ottoman beylik to the 1460s.