HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Manuel Chrysoloras, Polymath, Carolingian Renaissance
17 Mar 2020
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By 1354, the ottomans had bypassed constantinople to expand into southeastern europe. They built up a large power base in the balkans while encircling constantinople: byzantine losses. A few decades later, the byzantine or eastern roman empire was reduce to not much beyond the bosporus. Only parts of mainland greece remained under its control beyond constantinople: ottoman legacy. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, the ottomans would continue expanding. Their legacy in europe would last down until at least the end of world war i: byzantine flight. While constantinople would not actually fall until 1453, ottoman pressure led many citizens to flee early on. Some of those aristocratic citizens were skilled scholars and educators: salutai"s opportunity. There was a surplus of greek brain power and a surplus of italian money: humanism and the greeks. This was perhaps the missing ingredient in the birth of humanism as an educational curriculum.
