Laonikos Chalkokondyles. History. Book II

Translation from Greek into Russian by Evgeny A. Khvalkov

Authors

  • Evgeny A. Khvalkov National Research University Higher School of Economics — St. Petersburg

Keywords:

Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman beylik, Constantinople, Orhan, Murad I, Manuel Palaeologus

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Evgeny A. Khvalkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics — St. Petersburg

PhD in History and Civilization; visiting lecturer at the National Research University
Higher School of Economics — St. Petersburg.

Published

2024-12-26

Issue

Section

Historical theology