The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid
change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the
expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was
one of the key Byzantine political and intellectual figures of the
time, and his writings are regarded as one of the most important
sources for study of the period. Kydones' career spanned at least
four decades, from the 1340s to the 1380s. A Latin scholar,
influenced in particular by the writings of Thomas Aquinas (some of
which he translated into Greek), Kydones was a leading advocate of
improvement of relations between Byzantium and the Latin West as
crucial to Byzantine survival. This book examines Kydones' career
and writings, investigating how they can contribute to developing a
nuanced understanding of Byzantine political and cultural
developments in these years of crisis.
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