Main entry:

Runciman, Steven, 1903-2000.

Title & Author:

Mistra : Byzantine capital of the Peloponnese / Steve Runciman.

Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, [1980]
©1980.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"With 26 illustrations"-- Title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-153) and index.
The vale of Sparta -- The coming of the Franks -- The foundation of Mistra -- The return of the Greeks -- The despot Manuel -- The despot Theodore I -- The despot Theodore II -- The last despots -- The city of Mistra -- The philosophers of Mistra -- The rule of the infidel -- The end of ancient Mistra.

Summary:

"Mystras (Greek:???????,????????, Myzithras in the Chronicle of the Morea) is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sparti, of which it is a municipal unit. Situated on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering. The site remained inhabited throughout the Ottoman period, when it was mistaken by Western travellers for ancient Sparta. In the 1830s, it was abandoned and the new town of Sparti was built, approximately eight kilometres to the east."--Wikipedia.

ISBN:

0500250715 (hardback)
9780500250716 (hardback)

Subject:

Mistra (Greece) History.
Mistra (Grèce) Histoire.
Greece Mistra
Mistra (Greece)
Byzantine Empire History, Military 1081-1453.
Greece Mistra 1249-1800

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116203
Call No.: ID 2780 DF633.M5.R86; ID:95-B1088
Status: Available