Ronchey, S. “L'ultimo secolo di Bisanzio.” Storia e Dossier 60 (March 1992): 65-97.
1992
This essay covers the last century of the Byzantine empire (from 1340 to 1453), synthesising both the events and social, cultural, and religious history and introducing the reader to some of the major contemporary sources – Western and Eastern – that bear witness to its end. In-depth thematic entries (the restoration of Michael VIII Palaiologos and the “red commune” of the Thessalonika zealots, the Comparison between Rome and Constantinople by Manuel Chrysoloras and the Lament for Tamerlane, Hesychasm, and the School of Mystras), a general glossary, annotated bibliography, and comparative chronological table accompany the contribution.
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Keywords
- Ignatius of Smolensk
- John VIII Palaiologos
- Manuel II Palaiologos
- Fourth Crusade
- Benozzo Gozzoli
- Piero della Francesca
- Procession of the Magi
- Flagellation of Christ (of Urbino)
- Pero Tafur
- Council of Ferrara and Florence
- Manuel Chrysoloras
- Bessarion
- Byzantine aristocracy
- Byzantine court ritual
- John VI Kantakouzenos
- Revolt of the Zealots of Thessalonika
- Philocalia
- Nicephorus Gregoras
- Andronikos II Palaiologos
- John V Palaiologos
- Hesychasm
- Manuel Kantakouzenos
- Andronikos IV Palaiologos
- John VII Palaiologos
- Mystras
- Theodore II Palaiologos
- Tamerlane
- Battle of Varna
- Mehmet II
- George Sphrantzes
- Tursun Beg
- Turkish siege of Constantinople
- Isidore of Kiev