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Titre(s) : Two works on Trebizond [Texte imprimé] / Michael Panaretos, Bessarion ; edited and translated by Scott Kennedy
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : xxiv, 294 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
Collection : Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 52
Lien à la collection : Dumbarton Oaks medieval library
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index. - Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages ; introduction and notes
in English.
The empire of Trebizond was an important trading hub for travelers along the Silk
Road and acquired a great reputation for its wealth. As a unique outpost of the Eastern
Roman world with its own culture and dialect of Greek, this mysterious empire has
long fascinated European writers from Miguel Cervantes in Don Quixote to Dorothy Dunnett
in her popular Niccolò series. Regrettably, the remnants of the empire's own literary
production are few. The city produced some figures of note in Byzantine ecclesiastical
history, such as Saint Athanasios, the founder of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos,
and John Xiphilinos, the patriarch of Constantinople (1063-1075), and, in the fourteenth
century, it was known as a center of astronomical and mathematical studies. The most
famous surviving texts produced by its native sons are, however, the laconic chronicle
on the emperors of Trebizond attributed to Michael Panaretos and cardinal Bessarion's
encomium of the city. They are the cornerstone of any study of the empire of Trebizond
and Pontic Hellenism. This volume offers a translation of these two documents, including
the first ever English translation of Bessarion's Encomium on Trebizond, in the hope
that they will encourage further study of this elusive empire and its culture.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kennedy, Scott (19..-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Trébizonde (Empire)
Genre ou forme : Histoire -- Sources
Ouvrages avant 1800
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674986626. - ISBN 0674986628 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457397452
Notice n° :
FRBNF45739745
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : On the emperors of Trebizond / / by Michael Panaretos ; ; Encomium on Trebizond /
/ by Bessarion.
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Auteur(s) : Panarétos, Michel (1320?-1390?)
Titre conventionnel : [Mégas Komnīnós (grec ancien-anglais). 2019]
Titre(s) : On the emperors of Trebizond, the Grand Komnenoi, how, when, and how long each of them reigned / Michael Panaretos
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Auteur(s) : Bessarion, Jean (1403-1472)
Titre conventionnel : [E̓glṓgion e̓is Trapezoûnta (grec ancien-anglais). 2019]
Titre(s) : Encomium on Trebizond / Bessarion
