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  Constantine Lascaris - Biocrawler
After leaving Milan, Lascaris taught in Rome under the patronage of Johannes Bessarion, and in Naples, whither he had been summoned by Ferdinand I to deliver a course of lectures on Greece.
Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable manuscripts to the senate of Messina; the collection was afterwards carried to Spain and lodged in the Escorial.
His name was later known to readers in the romance of AF Villemain, Lascaris, ou les Grecs du quinzieme siècle (1825).
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 Lascaris Constantine: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
The Legacy of Constantine 3...Chorene, histn 337: Death of Constantine 449: Anglo-Saxons invade Britain...
For Ambierle...Areopagite, the Donation of Constantine, and the composition of the...especially in the Vision of Constantine.
Lascaris, ou les Grecs du quinzieme siecle, suivi dun Essai historique...
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 Constantine Lascaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After leaving Milan, Lascaris taught in Rome under the patronage of Johannes Bessarion, and in Naples, whither he had been summoned by Ferdinand I to deliver a course of lectures on Greece.
Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable manuscripts to the senate of Messina; the collection was afterwards carried to Spain and lodged in El Escorial.
His name was later known to readers in the romance of Abel-Francois Villemain, Lascaris, ou les Grecs du quinzieme siècle (1825).
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 Constantine IV - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Constantine IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Constantine IV (649-685) was Byzantine emperor from 668-685.
In 680 Constantine called the Sixth Ecumenical Council (also known as the Third Council of Constantinople), reaffirming the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
In 681, Constantine was forced to acknowledge the new Bulgarian Empire in the Balkans after having suffered a disastrous defeat in 680.
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 Constantine Lascaris - LoveToKnow 1911
After leaving Milan, Lascaris taught in Rome under the patronage of Cardinal Bessarion, and in Naples, whither he had been summoned by Ferdinand I.
Some of his letters are given by J. Iriarte in the Regiae Bibliothecae Matritensis codices Graeci manuscripts, i.
His name is known to modern readers in the romance of A. Villemain, Lascaris, ou les Grecs du quinzieme siecle (1825).
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 Constantine Lascaris
Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable manuscripts to the senate of Messina; the collection was afterwards carried to Spain and lodged in the Escorial.
Some of his letters are given by J Iriarte[?] in the Regiae Bibliothecae Matritensis codices Graeci manuscripti, i.
His name was later known to readers in the romance of AF Villemain, Lascaris, ou les Grecs du quinzieme siècle (1825).
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 Constantine Summary
Constantine could not challenge this decision immediately, but when his father died at York in July 306, he reasserted the claim, this time backed by the British and Gallic armies, and requested confirmation from the eastern emperor.
Constantine's motives are beyond reconstruction, but it is clear that he believed the victory had been won with divine assistance.
Constantine had never been a persecutor; indeed, in 306 he had ordered the restoration of property in Britain and Gaul that had been confiscated from Christians during the Great Persecution (303–305).
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 Constantinople
Constantine XI Byzantium had first been reconstructed in the time of Septimius Severus not just as a Roman city, but modelled on Rome itself, on and around seven hills.
For a great part of Constantine VII's reign the imperial title was shared and the imperial office discharged by a soldier of some distinction, Romanus I, whose name was given to Constantine VII's son, who succeeded him in AD 959.
In 1208 Theodore Lascaris, having established control of the western dominions in Asia Minor was crowned emperor by the exiled court of Constantinople at Nicaea.
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 Constantine II (emperor) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Constantine II (emperor)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Constantine II, (February 317 - 340), was Roman Emperor (337 - 340).
The eldest son of Constantine I the Great and Fausta, he was born at Arles in present day South of France.
Following the death of his father in 337, Constantine II became joint Emperor with his brothers Constantius II and Constans.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Constantine,
Constantine supported all the reforms instituted by his brother, who gave him command of the fleet and made him governor-general of Poland in 1862.
In Constantine and Rome Holloway extends the chronological scope of...
CONSTANTINE; THE GREATEST ROMAN EMPE An exhibition which opens in York tomorrow marks the debt owed by the modern Church to a Christian convert who rescued a failing empire brought peace and preached tolerance.
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 Joannes Lascaris - LoveToKnow 1911
1445-1535), Greek scholar, probably the younger brother of Constantine Lascaris, surnamed Rhyndacenus from the river Rhyndacus in Bithynia, his native province.
After the fall of Constantinople he was taken to the Peloponnese, thence to Crete, and ultimately found refuge in Florence at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici, whose intermediary he was with the sultan Bayezid II.
Amongst other works, Lascaris edited or wrote: Anthologia epigrammatum Graecorum (1494), in which he ascribed the collection of the Anthology to Agathias, not to Planudes; Didymi Alexandrini scholia in Iliadem (1517); Porphyrius of Tyre's Homericarum quaestionum liber (1518); De veris Graecarum litterarum formis ac causis apud antiquos (Paris, 1556).
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 History of The Order of St. Constantine The Great and St. Helen - NEW BYZANTIUM
The motto of Saint Constantine, “EN TOUTO NIKA”, appeared in the banner of the Fiiki Etaireia between the Saints Constantine and Helen.
Constantine, the eldest, later known as Cyril, was born in 827 A. His younger brother, Methodius, was sent to the court of Bulgarian Czar Boris in 859 to convert the monarch to Christianity.
Constantine the Great began his eventful climb in York, England and reached the apex of his achievement in Constantinople, the City that he founded and named after himself (Constantine+Polis [city]=Constantinople).
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 Constantine Lascaris
His work on the eight parts of speech presented to Princess Hippolyta Sforza procured from her father a request to teach the princess Greek.
Lascaris followd the princess to Naples when she married Alfonso II (1465).
Constantine Lascaris was above all a tutor and a transcriber of manuscripts.
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 Byzantines
Constantine I the Great (Constantinus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus Pontifex Maximus Pater Patriae Proconsul) (AD 272 - 337, ruled 306 - 337) – son of Constantius I Chlorus; left the empire redivided among his heirs; canonized
Constantine IV the Bearded (Κωνσταντίνος Δ' ο Πωγώνατος) (649 - 685, ruled 668 - 685) – son of Constans II Justinian II the Slit-nosed (Ιουστινιανός Β' ο Ρινότμητος) (668 - 711, ruled 685 - 695) – son of Constantine IV; mutilated, deposed, and exiled
Constantine VI the Blinded (Κωνσταντίνος ΣΤ') (771 - 797, ruled 780 - 797) – son of Leo IV; deposed and mutilated by mother
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 Constantine Lascaris --  Encyclopædia Britannica
While the Latin crusaders were besieging Constantinople in April 1204, the emperor Alexius V slipped away into exile, and Constantine, one of the city's leading defenders, was proclaimed emperor in the Cathedral of St. Sophia.
He is sometimes referred to as Constantine XII, based on the erroneous idea that Constantine Lascaris was crowned in 1204.
The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity is attributed to Constantine.
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 Lascaris - Research the news about Lascaris - from HighBeam Research
In Memoriam Manolis Lascaris, a Byzantine aesthete in Australia.(Obituary)
He succeeded Theodore I Lascaris and defeated rivals for the imperial throne in 1223.
The daughter of King Bela IV and his wife Mary Lascaris, Margaret was born in the castle of Turoc.
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 Manuel Moschopulus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was also the author of scholia on the first and second books of the Iliad, on Hesiod, Theocritus, Pindar and other classical and later authors; of riddles, letters, and a treatise on the magic squares.
His grammatical treatises formed the foundation of the labors of such promoters of classical studies as Manuel Chrysoloras, Theodorus Gaza, Guarini, and Constantine Lascaris.
A selection from his works under the title of Manuelis Moschopuli opuscula grammatica was published by FN Titze (Leipzig, 1822); see also Karl Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) and M. Treu, Maximi monachi Planudis epistulae (1890), p.
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 Constantine Lascaris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ultimately, on the invitation of theinhabitants, he settled in Messina, Sicily,where he continued to teach publicly until his death.
Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable manuscripts to the senate of Messina; the collectionwas afterwards carried to Spain and lodged in the Escorial.
His name was later known to readersin the romance of AF Villemain, Lascaris, ou lesGrecs du quinzieme siècle (1825).
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 List of Byzantine Emperors : Byzantine emperor
Constantine V Copronymus (the Dung-named), (718-745, ruled 741)
Constantine VI the Blinded, (771-797, ruled 780 - 797)
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (the Purple-born), (905-959, ruled 913 - 959)
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constantine Lascaris
Constantinople; born 1434; died at Messina in 1501.
Lascaris followed the princess to Naples when she
Lascaris was above all a tutor and a transcriber of manuscripts.
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 Byzantine Empire - All About Turkey
Greek culture continued its influence long after the region became part of the Roman Empire, in the 100's BC.
But it was when Roman emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (Istanbul today), in 330 AD, that the Byzantine Empire really began.
The Byzantine Empire, however, had left its mark on the culture, never to be entirely erased even after the Conquest.
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 Hellenic Community of Ottawa - Hellenic Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The book "Grammatica Graeca" printed in Milan in 1476 was written by Constantine Lascaris, a Greek scholar and grammarian from Constantinople.
Lascaris' grammar made a vital contribtion to the development of "European Culture" by forming the basis on which Europe was introduced to the wisdom and beauty of Ancient Greece.
Their conquest of Constantinople in 1453 caused many Byzantine scholars to flee to Italy at a time when the rise of Humanism was driving scholars to read the Greek classics in the original lanquage.
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 nl Constantijn Constantine is the name of several people Constantine...
Constantine I of the Roman Empire Constantine I of the Roman Empire
Constantine I of Greece Constantine I of Greece
Constantine I of Scotland Constantine I of Scotland
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 IPHBAU - International Philo-Byzantine Academy and University - NEW BYZANTIUM
It was that contingent that proclaimed Constantine an Emperor.
Prince Theodore IX, senior brother to the Honoree, is the Grand Protector and Head of the Dynastic Byzantine House of Lascaris Comnenus of Constantinople.
Bronze bust of Professor Prince Constantino Lascaris Comnenus at Plaza Constantino Láscaris on the campus square of the National University of Costa Rica.
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 Emperors of Byzantine (284 - 1453)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Profiles the siblings of Constantine the Great who were the victims of the imperial purges of 337 AD.
Reviews the reign of Constantine the Great's eldest son who in collaboration with his two brothers, murdered any relative in line to the throne.
Briefly profiles the reign of the Byzantine empress who was regent for her son Constantine VI and was a rabid opponent of iconoclasm.
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 Lascaris — FactMonster.com
John IV, who was forced (1259) to share his throne with Michael VIII, founder of the Palaeologus dynasty.
Theodore II, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea - Theodore II Theodore II (Theodore Lascaris), 1222–58, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea...
Theodore I, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea - Theodore I Theodore I (Theodore Lascaris), d.
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 Utopia in Chicago
When Constantine Lascaris presented the messengers of Cardinal Bessarion a specimen of one of the earlier printed books, they mocked this so-called discovery which had been made by a German barbarian.
Hythlodaeus explains,"  Lascaris was my choice of grammarians; I did not take Theodore with me." He is referring here to another Greek grammarian, Theodore of Gaza.
Linacre and Lascaris worked with Aldus on his 1495 edition of Aristotle’s Works,  shortly after  Aldus published Lascaris' Greek and Latin Grammar.  The Greek Grammar was the first book printed by Aldus, and Linacre and Lascaris were working together in Aldus's shop at that time.
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 American Idol - Constantine Maroulis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Sixth General Council was summoned in 678 by Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, with a view of restoring between East and West the religious harmony that had been troubled by the Monothelistic controversies.
By this name is understood, since the end of the Middle Ages, a forged document of Emperor Constantine the Great, by which large privileges and rich possessions were conferred on the pope and the Roman Church.
Information on Tom Constantine, famous US lawman named in may 2000 to serve as oversight commissioner for implementation of patten commission reform of police service in northern Ireland.
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 Hist of Christ'n Church 6 (ii.ix.v)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The leading Greeks, who emigrated to Italy after the fall of Constantinople, were Callistus, Constantine Lascaris and his son John.
Constantine Lascaris, who belonged to a family of high rank in the Eastern empire, gave instruction in the Greek language to Ippolita, the daughter of Francis Sforza, and later the wife of Alfonso, son of Ferdinand I. of Naples.
His son, John Lascaris, 1445–1535, was employed by Lorenzo de’ Medici to collect manuscripts in Greece, and superintended the printing of Greek books in Florence.
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