The letters of Theodore II Doukas Laskaris: An approach to the emperor’s literary profile

Abstract

The present study aims at the clarification of Theodore II Laskaris’ personality through his letters. These letters are a valuable source for the study of the Nicaean period; although the historical references are limited there is abundant direct and most frequently indirect information about the political, social and cultural milieu in Nicaea as well as about the private life and ideology of the epistolographer. The letters vividly depict the likes and dislikes of an ordinary man; sometimes he is glad and sometimes upset, he praises and blames, hopes and despairs or feels sorry. His relation to most of his addressees ranges from warm friendship to an expression of respect or merely a formal communication, at least in the period when the letters were composed. In his letters as crown prince Laskaris is presented as an intellectual who analyzes with a philosophical reasoning and embellishes his thoughts by means of rhetorical devices, without the pressure that the urgent imperial duties ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/30319
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/30319
ND
30319
Alternative title
Οι επιστολές του Θεόδωρου Β΄ Δούκα Λάσκαρη: προσέγγιση της λογοτεχνικής φυσιογνωμίας του αυτοκράτορα
Author
Koutouvalas, Panagiotis (Father's name: Konstantinos)
Date
2014
Degree Grantor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Committee members
Μαρκόπουλος Αθανάσιος
Πολέμης Ιωάννης
Παναγιώτου Αντώνιος
Λουκάκη Μαρίνα
Αντωνοπούλου Θεοδώρα
Κοτζαμπάση Σοφία
Αλεξάκης Αλέξανδρος
Discipline
Humanities and the Arts
Languages and Literature
Keywords
Theodore II Laskaris; Epistolography; Content and addressees; Language; Rhetoric; Literary sources; Commentary; Education; Christian humanism; Byzantine philosophy; Politics; Nicaea
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
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