Kritovoulos biography of christopher

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Kristovoulos, one of the vanquished Greeks, later entered into the service of the Conqueror and began to write a history of the Sultan's life, starting with the.

History of Mehmed the Conqueror / by Kritovoulos ; translated from the Greek by Charles T. Riggs.

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Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Note on Transliteration
Preface: The View from the Edge of the Center
Stephanos Vogorides’ Apologia, November
1. The Houses of Phanar
2. Volatile Synthesis
3. Demolitions
4. Phanariot Remodeling and the Struggle for Continuity
5. Diplomacy and the Restoration of a New Order
6. In the Eye of the Storm
Appendix A: Genealogies of the Vogorides, Musurus, and Aristarchi Families
Appendix B: Phanariot Dignitaries in the kvartet High Offices of Dragoman (Grand Dragoman; Dragoman of the Fleet) and Voyvoda (of Wallachia and Moldavia), –
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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Biography of an Empire

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Ahmanson Foundation Humanities Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation. The publisher also gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by The

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Kritoboulos, Michael

Abstract

Late Byzantine author, scribe, and scholar. He held the position of governor of Imbros in the period – ca. His main work is a historiographical narrative of the years – (Ξυγγραφὴ Ἱστοριῶν); minor works include a prayer to Christ and verses to Saint Augustine. Imitation (mimesis) of ancient writers such as Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Flavius Josephus, Aelius Aristides, and Arrian is combined with a choice of compromise with and accommodation to Ottoman rule and elaborated through a new synthesis of notions regarding history and its evolution.

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An Early Ottoman History (Intro & Preface)
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