The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, C.1295-1383 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521522014)

This is a biography of one of the most unusual Byzantine emperors in Constantinople who reigned from 1347 to 1354, and subsequently spent thirty years as a monk. John Cantacuzene was unique in that he wrote his own memoirs and in his varied talents and interests in a long life, as a soldier, scholar, and theologian. His dealings with the earliest leaders of the Ottoman Turks, with the merchants of Venice and Genoa, with the papacy, and with Stephen Dusan of Serbia also give his career a special interest. This is the first biography of John Cantacuzene in English.

Author: Donald M. Nicol
ISBN-10: 0521522013
ISBN-13: 9780521522014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2002
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.97w x 0.59d