Byzantine Hellene

The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling over a Byzantine state in exile after the disastrous Fourth Crusade, illuminate the transformation of the politics and culture of Byzantium and unveil little-known aspects of the medieval encounters between the Greek East and the Latin West.

Viata si scrierile extraordinare ale lui Theodore Laskaris, un filozof-imparat imaginativ care stapaneste un stat bizantin in exil dupa dezastruoasa cruciada a patra, lumineaza transformarea politicii si culturii Bizantului si dezvaluie aspecte putin cunoscute ale intalnirilor medievale dintre greci. Estul si vestul latin.