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Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) Siren Çelik Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83659-3 — Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) Siren Çelik Index More Information Index Acciajuoli, Bartolomea, 105 art artefacts, 127, 161, 177, 217, 223, 231–2, 249–53, Acciajuoli, Nerio, 104 261–2, 341, 353 Achaia, 321 Asan, Andreas, 196 Adam of Usk, 23, 230, 267 Asan, Constantine, 168, 186 Address as if from a Benevolent Ruler to his Subjects, Asan, John, 84 337, 392 Asan, Matthew, 323 Admonitions Leading to Brevity and Peace in the Aşıkpaşazade, 23–4, 134, 156, 309 Councils, 337, 395 Athens, 105 Adrianople, 28, 37 Augustine, 183, 197 Agapetos, 320, 325–7 Augustus, Roman emperor, 250, 251 Akyndinos, Gregory, 183, 184 Aurispa, Giovanni, 286, 287, 359 Alexander, the Great, 97 autobiography, 15–16, 48–9, 69–71, 74–6 Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, Avignon, 31, 37, 52, 232 270 Alexios III of Trebizond, 345 bailos, 31, 271, 362 Amadeo of Savoy, 52, 54, 65 Balsamon, Michael, 168, 295 Amaseia, 131 Balsamon, Theodore, 303, 304 Anacreontic Verses to an Ignorant Person, 294, Barker, John, 2, 70 328, 351 Barlaam of Calabria, 183, 184 Andronikos II Palaiologos, 207, 278, 303 Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan, 49, 121, 126, 128–9, Andronikos IV Palaiologos, 27, 37, 39, 51, 130–2, 162, 169–72, 202, 206, 210 56–7, 60–2, 66–9, 72–3, 107, 121, 127–8, portrayal of, 131–8, 153–6, 247–9, 309, 333 163, 300 Berger de Xivrey, Jules, 70, 187 Andronikos V Palaiologos, 48, 170, 261, 298 Bessarion, 254, 339, 340, 378, 379, 380 Anemas, 38, 63, 66–71, 73 Monody on Manuel II, 346–52, 362, 378 Angelos, Alexios, 104 biography, 17–20 Angelos, messanger, 119, 120 Bithynia, 138 Ankara, 131, 138 Blachernai, 26, 159, 175 Ankara, battle of, 134, 209, 247–9, 259–60, 310, Blachernai Palace, 175, 262 347, 354 Black Sea, 51, 130 Anna of Kiev, 321, 352 Blackheath, 228 Anna of Savoy, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, Blemmydes, Nikephoros, 320, 326 56, 78 Boucicaut, Jehan II Le Maingre, 211, 213, 215, Antiochos, 215, 265 233–4, 255, 258 Aphthonios, 46, 373 Boullotes, Manuel, 177 Apokaukos, George, 80 Branas, Alexios, 215 Aquinas, Thomas, 43, 183, 234–6 Brontocheion, church, 298 Aragon, 107, 206–8, 220, 232, 260, 379 Bryennios Leontaris, Manuel, 270 archontes, 81, 91, 94, 96, 162, 274, 297, 305, 311 Bryennios, Joseph, 141, 146, 168, 187, 200, 235, Aristophanes, 45, 82, 131, 151, 291 287, 339, 345, 360–1, 369, 378 Aristotle. Bakın ethics, Aristotelian Buda, 50–2, 57, 123, 213 439 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83659-3 — Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) Siren Çelik Index More Information 440 Index Bulgarians, 28, 52, 65, 162, 178 Confession Addressed to his Spiritual Fathers, 367, Bursa, 118, 128 370, 376 Constantine XI Palaiologos, 158, 262, 322, Calais, 225 380 Canterbury, 228, 229 Constantinople, 30, 276 Caresini, Rafaele, 23, 63 blockade of (1394–1402), 162, 166, 173–4, 196, Caroldo, 64 206–12, 275, 326 Castile, 220, 379 city space, 174 Catholicism, conversions to, 42–3, 55–6, 119, siege of 1411, 308–9 180–6, 190–3, 205, 234–6, 240, 345 siege of 1422, 358–9 ceremonial, 26–7, 159–60, 169, 267, 304 Corinth, 197, 275, 315 Chalazas, 93, 267 coronation, 26–7, 159–60, 169, 353 Chalkokondyles, Laonikos, 22, 56, 57, 63, 66, 72, Council of Constance, 354 78, 109, 158, 163, 171, 256, 298, 354–6, Council of Florence, 241, 354, 365, 380 366–7, 379 Council of Lyons, 31, 241, 365 Chapters of Compunction, 370, 377 court, imperial, 168, 267–70 Charanton, 218 Crete, 195 Charisios Gate, 126 Cyprus, 30, 284 Charles VI, king of France, 207, 211, 218–19, 225, Cyriac of Ancona, 285 229, 230, 246, 298 Çamurlu, battle of, 310 Chioggia War, 72 Chios, 65 Damius, Dalmau, 208 Chomatenos, Demetrios, 303, 304 David and Damian, Manuel II’s spiritual fathers, Chora, monastery, 286 84, 369 Chortasmenos, John, 168, 286 David, biblical figure, 376 Address to Manuel II, 271, 346–52 Declamation regarding a Drunken Man, 46, 199, Chronicle of Kefalonia, 366 282, 294, 296 Chronicle of Saint Denis, 23, 218, 223, 231, 247 Dejanović, Dragaš, Constantine, 157, 177, Chrysoberges, Maximos, 43, 119, 181, 186 207, 353 Chrysoloras, Demetrios, 146, 168, 200, 235, Demosthenes, 100–1, 120 266–7, 270, 284, 285, 294, 305, 312, Dialogue on Marriage, 46, 158, 169–70, 369 196–203, 210, 227, 261, 284, 285, 292, 299, Hundred Letters, 346–52 315, 339, 343 Synkrisis of the Emperor of Today and Ancient Dialogue with a Persian, 36, 45, 138–57, 180, 185, Emperors, 346–52 189, 194, 196, 199, 236, 243, 282, 292, 293, Chrysoloras, Manuel, 43, 168, 187, 216, 225, 296, 332 231, 255, 260, 273, 286, 313, 343, 345, 346, diatribe, 331, 367, 370 354 Didymoteichon, 28, 33, 37, 63 Discourse on the Funeral Oration, 346–52 Dio Chrysostom, 321, 323 Chrysostom, John, 287 Dionysios the Aeropagite, 231–2 Church Fathers, 46, 182, 183, 320, 330, 331 Discourse on Dreams, 47, 196, 296, 339 Church of Saint Stephen, 360 Discourse to Iagoup, 40, 53, 55, 67, 69–71, 74–6, Church Union, 31, 55, 107, 129, 205, 240–2, 353, 184, 186–95, 243, 266, 292, 338 354, 359–61, 365 Discourse to Kabasilas, 109, 112–18, 140, 147, 227, Church, Byzantine, 102, 180–6, 299–302, 371 282, 292, 293 imperial rights over, 302–7, 327–8 Discourse to the Thessalonians, 94–102, 227, 291, civil war, Ottoman, 259, 307–10, 365 292, 337, 343 civil wars, Palaiologan, 25–9, 60–2, 66–9, 72–3, Dobrotica, Bulgarian nobleman, 67 107, 126–8, 326 documents, monastic. Bakın documents, Clarification on a Debate between Demetrios official Chrysoloras and Antonio d’Ascoli, 286, 335, documents, official, 59, 60–2, 221, 278–80, 343, 345 396 Clavijo, Ruy Gonzalo de, 23, 63, 176, 210, 266, Doria, Hilario, 208, 281 267, 285 Doukas, Michael, 22, 63, 66, 72, 210, 214, 256, coinage, 162, 276–8 354–6, 361, 366–7, 368, 379, 399 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83659-3 — Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) Siren Çelik Index More Information Index 441 Dragaš, Helena, 157–60, 199, 232, 261, 262, Great Palace, 175, 262 322, 378 Gregoras, Nikephoros, 22, 26, 33, 36, 41, 168, 196 Dušan, Stephan, 28 Gregory of Cyprus, 143, 236 Gregory of Nazianzos, 46, 240, 244 economy, Byzantine, 30–1, 65, 80–2, 162–5, Guarino of Verona, 255, 343, 345, 346 208–10, 270–2 ekphrasis, 45, 50, 244, 254 Hacı Bayram Veli, 145, 156 Ekphrasis on a Tapestry in Louvre, 50, 244, 254, Hagia Sophia, 26, 127, 160, 175, 287 292, 297 Hagios Basileos, village, 80 Eltham Palace, 228 health of Manuel II, 120, 204, 359–60, 367–8 emirates, Turkish, 30, 130–2, 162, 259 Helikobounon, 396 England, 31, 179, 206–8, 233, 245–6 Henry IV, king of England, 221, 228–30, 246, English Channel, the, 226 251, 273 Epiros, 104 Hermogenes, 95 epistolography, Byzantine, 6–7, 87–8, 91–4, Herodotos, 44, 205, 287 119–21, 131–8, 224–5 Hexamilion, 275, 310–14, 348, 362, 380 Ethico-Political Orations, 45, 50, 109, 143, 206, Hippocrates, 47 276, 330–6, 339, 369 Holt, Peter, 220 ethics, Aristotelian, 45, 98–9, 125, 155–6, 192–3, Homer, 45, 82, 137–8, 242, 283, 291, 294, 324, 349, 316–17, 324, 329–30, 331, 333–6, 372–4 351, 373 ethopoiia, 11, 45, 248–9, 349 Hospitallers, the, 127, 197, 206, 274, 315 Ethopoiia on Tamerlane, 247, 248–9, 394 Hôtel de Saint Paul, 222 eudaimonia. Bakın ethics, Aristotelian Hungary, 31, 50–2, 178–80, 363 Eudaimonioannes, Nicholas, 353 hunting, 40–1, 119–20, 152, 154, 284–6, 366 Eugenios Gate, 159 Iagoup, Alexios, 187 Filelfo, Francesco, 359 Ibn Arabshah, 354 filioque, 234 Ibn Battuta, 152, 175 fortune, 125, 148–9, 332 Ignatius of Smolensk, 23, 127, 159–60, 210 Foundations of Imperial Conduct, 41, 45, 128, 143, Imbros, 206 267, 276, 285, 297, 319–21, 343, 347, 351 Isa, son of Bayezid, 259, 307 France, 31, 179, 206–8, 232, 245–6, 260 Isidore of Kiev, 168, 254, 257, 313, 339–40 Freising icon, 217, 223, 231 Panegyric on John VIII and Manuel II, 346–52 Funeral Oration, 34, 35, 38, 40, 49, 64, 66–9, 72, Isocrates, 321, 323 74–6, 109, 133, 170, 174, 197, 211, 214, 227, Italos, John, 190 274, 292, 297, 313–18, 339, 341–3, 346, 369 Ivankos, 85 identity, 97–8, 135–6, 193–5, 240, 314, 332–3 Gabras family, 177 Gabriel of Thessalonike, 84, 282, 284, 308, 343, James I, king of Cyprus, 284 369, 372 Jean, duc de Berry, 221, 222–3, 249–51 Galen, 47 Jews, 272 Gallipoli, 72, 258, 355, 357 John Climacus, 334 Gattilusio, Francesco I, 65 John of Damascus, 115, 140, 143, 331 Gattilusio, Francesco II, 111, 163 John V Palaiologos, 25–9, 42, 55, 60–2, 64–9, Gattilusio, Giorgio, 310 72–3, 78, 80, 87, 107, 117–18, 120–9, 161, 164, Gazes, Theodore, 313 272, 276, 300 Genoa, 30, 31, 65, 72, 73–4, 121, 126–8, 163, 166, John VI Kantakouzenos, 22, 25–9, 31, 32–3, 35–7, 207, 234, 258, 260, 270–2, 354 42, 73, 94, 120, 142–3, 147, 164, 185, 197, 207, genos, 47, 92, 159, 188, 194, 315, 333 235, 242, 264, 272, 282 gift exchange, 92, 120, 204, 217, 220–3, 229, 231–2 John VII Palaiologos, 63, 73, 108, 121, 124–5, Glabas, Isidore, 77, 94, 102–4, 109, 302, 372 126–8, 161, 162–3, 169–72, 201–3, 208–12, Golden Gate, 126, 128 214, 232, 258, 260–2, 269, 278, 298–9, 332 Goudeles family, 163, 209 John VIII Palaiologos, 169, 232, 261, 285, 321–3, governance, 58–9, 64–5, 83–4, 160–9, 266, 332, 352–6, 358, 360, 361–2, 363, 366, 379, 269–81, 362 380, 400 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83659-3 — Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) Siren Çelik Index More Information 442 Index Jonas, biblical figure, 117 Lucca, 208 Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 270, 303 Lucian, 115 Kabasilas, Demetrios, 83 Magistros, Thomas, 320, 326 Kabasilas, Nicholas, 59, 84, 86, 89, 94, 112, 117,
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