George Sholaris (Gennadios II Sholarios) |
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George (Gennadius) Scholares was a theologian and first patriarch of Constantinople during the Turkish occupation (1454-1456, 1463, 1464-1465). At first, he supported the union of the Churches and participated in the Synod of Florence (1439), but later he became a fervent opponent of the union. He mastered Latin language and respected Latin culture, especially Thomas Akinates. He was a great supporter of Aristotle. |
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One of the last Byzantine historians, state official, associate of the last three Byzantine emperors and writer of the Chronicon Minus that records the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. |
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All existing information about the Byzantine poet “Ptochoprodromos” or “poor Prodromos” comes exclusively from four of his poems that survived in 12th-C. literary tradition. The ptochoprodromic poems, as they are called, are the first samples of Byzantine folk satire, a typical literary genre of the cosmopolitan society of komnenian Constantinople. The poet, who calls himself Ptochoprodromos, makes creative use of the tradition of satire and of the rhetorical technique of ethopoeia,... |
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Критовул, късновизантийски историк и общественик. Роден около 1410 г., вероятно умира в Константинопол ок. 1470 г. Управител на о. Имброс. Автор на богословски съчинения и една история, наречена от изследователите “Животът и управлението на Мехмед II Ал-Фатих (Завоевателя)”. Съчинението му обхваща периода между 1451-1467 г. и е разделено на пет книги. Проследява завоевателните походи на султан Мехмед II (1451-1481) към островите в Егейско и Йонийско море и на Балканите. Силно влияние върху... |
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