Marios Philippides, Walter K Hanak

Cardinal Isidore (c.1390-1462)

A Late Byzantine Scholar, Warlord, and Prelate

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an original work based on new archival research and the first monograph to study Cardinal Isidore in his many diverse roles. His contributions to the events of the first six decades of the quattrocento are important for the study of major Church councils and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isidore played a crucial

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780367592325
• ISBN-10: 0367592320
• Artikelnr.: 69890718

Autorenporträt

Marios Philippides is Professor of Classics, Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He has published numerous articles on the fall of Constantinople, 1453, on late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine historiography, and on the Palaiologan era. He has authored numerous books and two books with Walter K. Hanak. Walter K. Hanak was Professor of History, Emeritus at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA. He was the editor and publisher of the scholarly journal Byzantine Studies/Etudes Byzantines for many decades. He has published numerous articles on medieval Greece, Russia, and the Slavonic word. He was the author of a number of books and collaborated with Marios Philippides in the publication of two books.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The rise of Isidore 2. Isidore and the Council of Basle 3. The rise of
Isidore and the Council of Ferrara-Florence 4. The papal emissary 5.
Defender, humanist, and survivor 6. Cretan interlude 7. Il Cardinal Greco
Vecchio: The last years 8. Conclusions: Damnatio Memoriae? Appendix
Bibliography Index Personum Index Locorum Index Rerum Antiquarum