| The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295-1383
By Donald M. (King's College London) Nicol
ISBN: 9780521552561
Published: 1996
Number of Pages: 226
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His memoirs form one of the most interesting and literate of all Byzantine histories. Following his abdication in 1354, he lived the last thirty years of his life as a monk, a writer and a grey eminence behind the throne. This book is not a social or political history of the Byzantine Empire in the fourteenth century. It is a biography of a much maligned man who had a hope, however naive, of coming to terms with the emerging Muslim world of Asia and of winning the co-operation of western Christendom without compromising the Orthodox faith of the Byzantine tradition. |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
95030689 - LC control Number:
95030689 //r95 - LC control Number:
95030689 //r95 - LC control Number:
95030689 //r962National Bibliography Number:
GB96-32037International Standard Book Number:
0521552567:
0521552567 (hc)Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail:
mb/mb(mb)Geographic Area Code:
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- Classification number:
DF638 - Classification number:
DF638. - Item number:
.N53 1996 - Item number:
N53 1996Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
20 - Edition number:
20 - Classification number:
949.5/04/092Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Nicol, Donald MacGillivray - Personal name:
Nicol, Donald MacGillivray.Title Statement
- Title:
The reluctant emperor : - Remainder of title:
a biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine emperor and monk, c. 1295-1383 / - Remainder of title:
John Cantacuzene, emperor and monk, c. 1295-1383 / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Donald M. Nicol - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Donald M. Nicol.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
Cambridge [England] ; - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Cambridge University Press, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1996 - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1996.Projected Publication Date:
9602Physical Description
- Extent:
p. cm. - Extent:
xi, 203 p. : - Extent:
xi, 203 p., [8] p. of plates : - Other physical details:
ill. - Other physical details:
ill. ; - Other physical details:
ill., map ; - Dimensions:
24 cm - Dimensions:
24 cm.Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index. - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Subject Added Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
John - Numeration:
VI Cantacuzenus, - Titles and other words associated with a name:
Emperor of the East, - Dates associated with a name:
1292-1383 - Dates associated with a name:
1292-1383.Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Civilization, Medieval - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Emperors - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Monks - Form subdivision:
Biography. - General subdivision:
Biography - General subdivision:
Biography. - Chronological subdivision:
14th century. - Geographic subdivision:
Byzantine Empire