Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Sylvester 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, a rare eye-witness account of the Council of Fer