The greatest misfortune in the Oikoumene Byzantine historiography on the fall of Constantinople in 1453

Abstract

The focus of the paper is on the manner in which the so-called Four Historians of the Fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks - Doukas, Laonikos Chalko­kondyles, George Sphrantzes and Kritoboulos of Imbros - describe the 1453 conquest of Constantinople, revealing at the same time their different political views both on this event and on the historical reality before and after it. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177032: Tradition, innovation and identity in the Byzantine world, i br. 177015: Christian culture in the Balkans in the middle ages: the Byzantine Empire, the Serbs and the Bulgarians in the 9th-15th century]

Keywords

• Doukas
• Laonikos Chalkokondyles
• George Sphrantzes
• Kritoboulos of Imbros
• political attitude
• Constantinople