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The histories
- Title
- The histories / Laonikos Chalkokondylēs ; translated by Anthony Kaldellis.
- Author
- Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014-
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-3500 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-3500 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 2 volumes; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Among Greek histories of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the work of Laonikos (ca. 1430-ca. 1465) has by far the broadest scope. Born to a leading family of Athens under Florentine rule, he was educated in the classics at Mistra by the Neoplatonist philosopher Plethon. In the 1450s, Laonikos set out to imitate Herodotos in writing the history of his times, a version in which the armies of Asia would prevail over the Greeks in Europe. The backbone of the Histories, a text written in difficult Thucydidean Greek, is the expansion of the Ottoman Empire from the early 1300s to 1464, but Laonikos's digressions give sweeping accounts of world geography and ethnography from Britain to Mongolia, with an emphasis on Spain, Italy, and Arabia. Following the methodology of Herodotos and rejecting theological polemic, Laonikos is the first Greek writer to treat Islam as a legitimate cultural and religious system. He followed Plethon in viewing the Byzantines as Greeks rather than Romans, and so stands at the origins of Neo-Hellenic identity. This translation makes the entire text of The Histories available in English for the first time."--Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 33-34
- Uniform Title
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 33-34.
- Subjects
- Note
- In Greek with English translation on the rectos.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Contents
- Volume I. Books 1-5 -- Volume II. Books 6-10.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-3500
- ISBN
- 9780674599185
- 0674599187
- 9780674599192
- 0674599195
- LCCN
- 2014004768
- 40024181799
- OCLC
- 883304576
- Author
- Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490.
- Title
- The histories / Laonikos Chalkokondylēs ; translated by Anthony Kaldellis.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014-
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 33-34Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 33-34.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Local Note
- PAR TEXT TRANS OF 15TH C. GREEK HIST. OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1300S-1464. W/INTRO & NOTES. V2 OF 2V SET.
- Added Author
- Kaldellis, Anthony.Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490. De rebus Turcicis.Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490. De rebus Turcicis. English.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024181799
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-3500