| Ducae Michaelis Ducae Nepotis Historia Byzantina Contributor(s): Ducas (Author), Bekker, Immanuel (Editor), Bekker, Immanuel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1139162608 ISBN-13: 9781139162609 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Language: Greek, Modern (after 1453) Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The author of this history was a member of the Byzantine Doukas family, a grandson of Michael Doukas, who had come to prominence in the civil wars of the fourteenth century, and possibly a remote descendant of the eleventh-century emperor Michael VII. His own first name and dates of birth and death are not known, but he seemed to have worked for a Genoese family or business, and after the fall of Constantinople took refuge on the island of Lesbos, then controlled by the Genoese Gattilusi dynasty. His history of the period 1341-1462, including the Ottoman conquest, survived in one manuscript: this 1834 edition by Immanuel Bekker provides, as well as a Latin translation of the original Greek text, a near-contemporary Italian version of unknown authorship discovered in a Venetian library by the historian Leopold Ranke, who supplied it to Bekker. |