Constantine XI’s last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produces a more

The first biography of the last Byzantine Emperor.

A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine eccl

This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The result

A bi-lingual edition of a 16th century chronicle, narrating the history of the Greek Church and people during the last days of Byzantium and the beginning of th