The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos is a text written by a Î’yzantine ecclesiastical official in the 15th century. Syropoulos participated in the Council for the union of the Greek and Latin Churches held in Ferrara and Florence, Italy, in 1438-1439. As a high-ranking official and an eye-witness of the union, he offers a unique perspective on this important political and religious event that would so decisively contribute to the political, military and religious development of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. Experts in different fields - historians, philologists, art historians and archaeologists - have come together in this volume to explore the actions and motives of the various political and religious groups that participated in the council. With Syropoulos as their starting point, the contributors of this volume reconstruct the living conditions, cross-cultural interaction, artistic and commercial exchange in the 15th-century Mediterranean. At the same time, they discuss the text as an invaluable source for political and diplomatic affairs at that time, as a travel account, an eye-witness narrative and as a literary work. Emphasis is placed on Syropoulos’s Section IV where he describes the journey of the Byzantine delegation from Constantinople to Italy, their stay in Venice and in Ferrara, the diplomatic contacts with the doge and the pope, and finally the beginning of the council’s proceedings. An annotated English translation of the text is included as an appendix to the book. The papers bring out the richness of the information in Syropoulos’s writings about the people involved in the Council of Ferrara-Florence and especially the interaction among different social, religious and political groups throughout that event. His work is unique because it is a rare eye-witness account, deriving from personal experience, rather than an objective historical narrative.

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Dr Fotini Kondyli, Ms Vera Andriopoulou, Dr Mary B Cunningham, Dr Eirini Panou

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Group

Gower Publishing Ltd

The Hakluyt Society

Taylor and Francis

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies, volume 16, Burlington, VT, 2014

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies, Farnham, Surrey, 2014

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, Abingdon, Oxon, 2016

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Farnham, Surrey, 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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Cover 1
Half Title 4
Title Page 6
Copyright Page 7
Table of Contents 8
List of Contributors 10
List of Figures 14
Introduction 16
1 Sylvester Syropoulos: The Author and His Outlook 24
2 The Ottomans, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Perils of the Papacy 38
3 Precedence and Papal Primacy 48
4 The Logistics of a Union: Diplomatic Communication through the Eyes of Sylvester Syropoulos 64
5 City, Marquis, Pope, Doge: Ferrara in 1438 84
6 Labelling Images, Venerating Icons in Sylvester Syropoulos’s World 94
7 What Did Syropoulos Miss? Appreciating the Art of the Lippomano Chapel in Venetian Negroponte 122
8 The Logistics of a Union: The Travelling Arrangements and the Journey to Venice 150
9 On Syropoulos’s Dalmatian and Istrian Route 170
10 The Colours Sylvester Syropoulos Saw: The Ideological Function of Colour in Byzantine Historiography and Chronicles (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries) 190
Appendix: English Translation of The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos, Section IV V. Laurent, Les ‘Mémoires’ de Sylvestre Syropoulos sur le concile de Florence (1438–1439) (Paris: CNRS, 1971), 196, ff. 200
Index 254
Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Slyvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages. Syropoulos's text.

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