Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)

Marios Philippides is Professor of Classics, Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He has published numerous articles on the fall of Constantinople, 1453, on late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine historiography, and on the Palaiologan era. He has authored numerous books and two books with Walter K. Hanak.Walter K. Hanak was Professor of History, Emeritus at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA. He was the editor and publisher of the scholarly journal Byzantine Studies/Etudes Byzantines for many decades. He has published numerous articles on medieval Greece, Russia, and the Slavonic word. He was the author of a number of books and collaborated with Marios Philippides in the publication of two books.

• 1. The rise of Isidore 2. Isidore and the Council of Basle 3. The rise of Isidore and the Council of Ferrara-Florence 4. The papal emissary 5. Defender, humanist, and survivor 6. Cretan interlude 7. Il Cardinal Greco Vecchio: The last years 8. Conclusions: Damnatio Memoriae? Appendix Bibliography Index Personum Index Locorum Index Rerum Antiquarum

"The collection of sources presented here, the thorough presentation of primary and secondary evidence about every facet of Isidore’s life and times, and the erudition of the authors, who are renowned authorities on the late Palaiologan period and the siege of 1453, make this book a signal contribution to the history of the fifteenth-century Mediterranean." - Tia Kolbaba, Rutgers University