The greatest misfortune in the Oikoumene Byzantine historiography on the fall of Constantinople in 1453
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2016/0350-76531647119N.pdf |