Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana Obsidione Relatio: A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Accoun

ISBN-13: 9781501510908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 182 str.

Andrea Massimo Cuomo

Opis

This volume presents a new critical edition of John Kananos account of the unsuccessful siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1422. An eye-witness to the siege, Kananos celebrates the defense of the City and its miraculous liberation at the hand of the Mother of God. This book offers a new critical text of Kananos' passionate narrative alongside a new analysis of the manuscripts, an English translation, and a linguistic commentary."

O autorze

Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Studies, Vienna, Austria.