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NICOL, Donald was born on February 4, 1923 in Portsmouth. Son of George Manson Nicol and Mary Patterson (nee MacGillivray).
(The Byzantine empire in the last two centuries of its exi...)
The Byzantine empire in the last two centuries of its existence had to rebuild itself after its conquest and dismemberment by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Its emperors in exile recovered Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates their empire's struggles for survival from that date until its final conquest by Ottoman Turks in 1453. First published in 1972, the book has been completely revised to take account of recent scholarship. It remains the best synthesis of the political, ecclesiastical and historical events of the period.
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(The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were l...)
The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society in the age of its decline and fall between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Though irremediably shattered by the effects of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Byzantine Empire found the will to reassert itself and to endure for another 250 years. Material recovery was hardly possible, but there was a remarkable reawakening of scholarship and of the spiritual life. The world's debt to some of the late Byzantine scholars is known to classicists and to students of the Italian Renaissance. The contribution of the latter-day saints of Byzantium, the hesychasts and scholars of the spirit, has been less publicized.
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(The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were l...)
The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society in the age of its decline and fall between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Though irremediably shattered by the effects of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Byzantine Empire found the will to reassert itself and to endure for another 250 years. Material recovery was hardly possible, but there was a remarkable reawakening of scholarship and of the spiritual life. The world's debt to some of the late Byzantine scholars is known to classicists and to students of the Italian Renaissance. The contribution of the latter-day saints of Byzantium, the hesychasts and scholars of the spirit, has been less publicized.
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(The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an ...)
The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an independent province following the Fourth Crusade and the dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire by the Latins in 1204. It retained its independence despite the recovery of Constantinople by the Greeks in 1261. Each of its rulers acquired the Byzantine titles of Despot, from which the term Despotate was coined to describe their territory. They preserved their autonomy partly by seeking support from their foreign neighbours in Italy. The fortunes of Epiros were thus affected by the expansionist plans of the Angevin kings of Naples and the commercial interests of Venice. Until 1318 it was governed by direct descendants of its Byzantine founder. Thereafter it was taken over first by the Italian family of Orsini, then conquered by the Serbians, infiltrated by the Albanians, and appropriated by an Italian adventurer, Carlo Tocco. Like the rest of Byzantium and eastern Europe it was ultimately absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century. The Despotate of Epiros illuminates part of Byzantine history and of the history of Greece in the Middle Ages.
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(The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an ...)
The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an independent province following the Fourth Crusade and the dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire by the Latins in 1204. It retained its independence despite the recovery of Constantinople by the Greeks in 1261. Each of its rulers acquired the Byzantine titles of Despot, from which the term Despotate was coined to describe their territory. They preserved their autonomy partly by seeking support from their foreign neighbours in Italy. The fortunes of Epiros were thus affected by the expansionist plans of the Angevin kings of Naples and the commercial interests of Venice. Until 1318 it was governed by direct descendants of its Byzantine founder. Thereafter it was taken over first by the Italian family of Orsini, then conquered by the Serbians, infiltrated by the Albanians, and appropriated by an Italian adventurer, Carlo Tocco. Like the rest of Byzantium and eastern Europe it was ultimately absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century. The Despotate of Epiros illuminates part of Byzantine history and of the history of Greece in the Middle Ages.
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(This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial...)
This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian Republic to the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, with the encouragement of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time, the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.
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(This is a work of reference listing in alphabetical order...)
This is a work of reference listing in alphabetical order most of the persons of note and influence in the Byzantine Empire from the foundation of Constantinople in AD 330 to its conquest by the Turks in 1453. Only those who were native to the Byzantine world based on Constantinople are listed, with short biographies of each person. There are thus no entries for Popes, Emperors, kings and princes of western Europe in the middle ages. Included are all the Byzantine Emperors, many of the Empresses, most of the Patriarchs of Constantinople, as well as writers, philosophers, theologians, scientists, teachers, soldiers and notable members of the ecclesiastical and political hierarchy in the Byzantine Empire.
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(Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor...)
Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, he was last seen fighting at the city walls, but the actual circumstances of his death have remained surrounded in myth. In the years that followed it was said that he was not dead but sleeping - the 'immortal emperor' turned to marble, who would one day be awakened by an angel and drive the Turks out of his city and empire. Donald Nicol's book tells the gripping story of Constantine's life and death, and ends with an intriguing account of claims by reputed descendants of his family - some remarkably recent - to be heirs to the Byzantine throne.
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(The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine ...)
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NICOL, Donald was born on February 4, 1923 in Portsmouth. Son of George Manson Nicol and Mary Patterson (nee MacGillivray).
Master of Arts, Pembroke College, Cambridge (England) University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Pembroke College, Cambridge (England) University, 1952. Postgraduate, British School Archaeology, 1950.
Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University College Dublin 1952-1964. Visiting Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., United States of America 1964-1965. Visiting Professor, of Byzantine History, Indiana University, United States of America 1965-1966.
Reader in Byzantine History, University of Edinburgh 1966-1970. Koraes Professor, of Modem Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature. King's College, University of London 1970-1988.
Director Gennadius Library, Athens July since 1989. Fellow and former Vice-Principal King's College. Birkbeck Lecturer, Cambridge 1976-1977.
President Ecclesiastical HistorySoc. 1975-1976.
(This is a work of reference listing in alphabetical order...)
(This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial...)
(The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an ...)
(The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an ...)
(The Byzantine empire in the last two centuries of its exi...)
(Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor...)
(The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine ...)
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(The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were l...)
(The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were l...)
Writings include: The Despotate of Epiros, 1957, Meteora: The Rock Monasteries of Thessaly, 1963, The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos: Circa 1100-1460, 1968, The Last Centuries of Byzantium: 1261-1453, 1972, Byzantium: Its Ecclesiastical History and Relations with the Western World, 1972, Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1979, The End of the Byzantium Empire, 1979, The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages, 1984, Studies in Late Byzantine History and Prosopography, 1986, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, 1988, A Biographical Dictionary of the Byzantine Empire, 1991, The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans, 1992, Ten Byzantine Ladies 1250-1500, 1994. Editor Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Contributor to numerous encyclopedias, periodicals and journals.
Fellow Royal History Society. Member Society Promotion Hellenic Studies (member council), Ecclesiastical History Society (president 1975-1976), Royal Irish Academy.
Book-binding.
Married Joan Mary Campbell. 3 children.