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CHALCONDYLES I (or CHALCOCONDYLAS), LAONICUS , the only Athenian See also:Byzantine writer. Hardly anything is known of his See also:life. He wrote a See also:history, in ten books, of the See also:period from 1298–1463, describing the fall of the See also:Greek See also:empire and the rise of the See also:Ottoman See also:Turks, which forms the centre of the narrative, down to the See also:conquest of the Venetians and Mathias, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hungary, by Mahommed II. The See also:capture of See also:Constantinople he rightly regarded as an See also:historical event of far-reaching importance, although the comparison of it to the fall of See also:Troy is hardly appropriate. The See also:work incidentally gives a See also:quaint and interesting See also:sketch of the See also:manners and See also:civilization of See also:England, See also:France and See also:Germany, whose assistance the Greeks sought to obtain against the Turks. Like that of other Byzantine writers, Chalcondyles' See also:chronology is defective, and his adherence to the old Greek See also:geographical nomenclature is a source of confusion. For his See also:account of earlier events he was able to obtain See also:information from his See also:father, who was one of the most prominent
1 A shortened See also:form of Chalcocondyles, from XaX+cbs, See also:copper, and KiAvXos, See also:knuckle.men in See also:Athens during the struggles between the Greek and Frankish nobles. His See also:model is See also:Thucydides (according to See also:Bekker, See also:Herodotus); his See also:language is tolerably pure and correct, his See also:style See also:simple and clear. The See also:text, however, is in a very corrupt See also:state.
Editio princeps, ed. J. B. See also:Baumbach (1615) ; in See also:Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Hist. Byz. ed. I. Bekker (1843) ; See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, clix. There is a See also:French See also:translation by Blaise de Vigenere (1577, later. ed. by Artus See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas with valuable illustrations on See also:Turkish matters) ; see also F. See also:Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Athen See also:im Mittelalter, ii. (1889); See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. 66; C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897). There is a See also:biographical sketch of Laonicus and his See also:brother in Greek by Antomus Calosynas, a physician of See also:Toledo, who lived in the latter See also:part of the 16th See also:century (see C. Hopf, Chroniques See also:greco-See also:romanes, 1873).
His brother, See also:DEMETRIUS CHALCONDYLES (1424-1511), was See also:born in Athens. In 1447 he migrated to See also:Italy, where See also:Cardinal See also:Bessarion gave him his patronage. He became famous as a teacher of Greek letters and the Platonic See also:philosophy; in 1463 he was made See also:professor at See also:Padua, and in 1479 he was summoned by Lorenzo de' See also:Medici to See also:Florence to fill the professorship vacated by See also:John Argyropoulos. In 1492 he removed to See also:Milan, where he died in 1511. He was associated with Marsilius Ficinus, See also:Angelus Politianus, and See also:Theodorus See also:Gaza, in the revival of letters in the western See also:world. One of his pupils at Florence was the famous John See also:Reuchlin. Demetrius Chalcondyles published the editio princeps of See also:Homer, Isocrates, and Suidas, and a Greek See also:grammar (Erotemata) in the form of question and See also:answer.
See H. See also:Hody, De Graecis illustribus (1742); C. Hopf, Chroniques greco-romanes (1873); E. Legrand, Bibliographie hellenique, i. (1885).
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