Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. Michaelis Ducas Nepotis
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. Michaelis Ducas Nepotis
E. Weber | 1834 | PDF | 672 pages | Greek, Latin | 31,58 Mb
E. Weber | 1834 | PDF | 672 pages | Greek, Latin | 31,58 Mb
The author of this history was a member of the Byzantine Doukas family, a grandson of Michael Doukas, who had come to prominence in the civil wars of the fourteenth century, and possibly a remote descendant of the eleventh-century emperor Michael VII. His own first name and dates of birth and death are not known, but he seemed to have worked for a Genoese family or business, and after the fall of Constantinople took refuge on the island of Lesbos, then controlled by the Genoese Gattilusi dynasty. His history of the period 1341-1462, including the Ottoman conquest.