Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) Should the last Byzantine historian be considered an early modern Hellenist? Yes, because he lived through the crucial years of the fall of Constantinople. After all, he started writing as soon as Constantinople fell, which was at the very beginning of the Modern Age. Yes, if we consider the literary genreContinue reading “Laonikos Chalkokondyles: The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography”