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Cardinal Isidore (C.1390-1462): A Late Byzantine Scholar, Warlord, and Prelate

Cardinal Isidore (C.1390-1462): A Late Byzantine Scholar, Warlord, and Prelate

Philippides, Marios
Hanak, Walter K.

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Biographies GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 081537982X
ISBN13: 9780815379829
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 12 2018
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.72
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks. He was an active advocate of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in Constantinople. His military exploits, including his participation in the defence of Constantinople in 1453, provide us with eyewitness accounts. Without doubt he travelled widely, perhaps more so than any other individual in the annals of Byzantine history: Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Italy. His roles included diplomat, high ecclesiastic in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches, theologian, soldier, papal emissary to the Constantinopolitan court, delegate to the Council of Florence, advisor to the last Byzantine emperors, metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia, and member of the Vatican curia.

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