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Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Μανουὴλ Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Manouēl Palaiológos; 27 June 1350 – 21 July 1425) was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name Matthew.
Jul 21, 2016 · During the last years of his life, Manuel II relinquished most official duties to his son and heir John VIII Palaiologos, and went back to Europe searching for assistance against the Ottomans, this time to the King Sigismund of Hungary, staying for two months in his court of Buda.
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Few Byzantine emperors had a life as tumultuous as that of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425). Living and ruling during the last decades of the Byzantine Empire, Manuel witnessed civil wars between the members of his own family, socio-economic problems and theological disputes.
Manuel II (1391-1425) was the second-to-last emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) Empire. He was a member of the house of the Palaiologoi, whose founder Michael VIII in 1261 had driven the Crusaders from the imperial capital, which they had conquered in 1204.
MANUEL II PALAEOLOGUS, BYZANTINE EMPEROR Theologian; b. Constantinople, June 27, 1350; d. Constantinople, July 21, 1425. The second son of Emperor John V, he was named successively despot (c. 1355) and governor of Thessalonica in 1369.
Oct 28, 2022 · Manuel II Palaeologus was one of the most learned and distinguished emperors of Byzantium. An enlightened statesman and a skilled diplomat, Manuel reigned in a critical period for the Empire (1391–1425) when its unity and survival were threatened by internal divisions and external menaces.
The introduction sets forth the goals and the methodologies of the study. It reviews the previous scholarship on Manuel II Palaiologos and explains the contributions made by this book.
