A question of audience: Laonikos Chalkokondyles’ Hellenism
Aslıhan Akışık-Karakullukçu
Abstract By focusing on the known details of Laonikos Chalkokondyles’ biography, his relation to Byzantine historiographical tradition, by comparing historical work that contemporary intellectuals living under Ottomans as well those in west, examining portrayal Mehmed II, adoption a Herodotean model, revival Herodotus Renaissance more generally, and reception ᾿Aπόδειξις fifteenth sixteenth centuries, I argue was writing for an elite circle émigrés other with access classical Greek rather than post- associated Ottoman court.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift