The Greatest Misfortune in the Oikoumene Byzantine Historiography on the Fall of Constantinople in 1453
- Nikolić, Maja
Publication date
January 2016
DOI Publisher
Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Journal
Balcanica Language
EnglishAbstract
The focus of the paper is on the manner in which the so-called Four Historians of the Fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks - Doukas, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, George Sphrantzes and Kritoboulos of Imbros - describe the 1453 conquest of Constantinople, revealing at the same time their different political views both on this event and on the historical reality before and after it
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