The Reluctant Emperor : A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295–1383
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521552567
ISBN-13
9780521552561
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 1996
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
475 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 16.00 x 2.20 cms
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c 1000 CE to c 1500Biography: historical, political & militaryBiography: historical, political and militaryEuropean historyAsian historyMiddle Eastern historyAncient history: to c 500 CEEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500HistoryAncient historyEuropean historyAsian historyMiddle Eastern history
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This was the first biography in English of one of the most unusual Byzantine emperors in Constantinople who reigned from 1347 to 1354, and who subsequently spent thirty years as a monk. John Cantacuzene was unique in that he wrote his own memoirs and in his range of talents and interests as a soldier, scholar, and theologian.
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.
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