Author: Doukas
Editor: Harry J. Magoulias
Translated by: Harry J. Magoulias
Edition: illustrated
Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1975
Original from: the University of Virginia
Digitized: 29 May 2008
ISBN: 0814315402, 9780814315408
Length: 346 pages
The main name and date of birth of Doukas is indistinct. The
creator's granddad, a supporter of John Kantakuzenos, fled to the sultan of
Smyrna in 1345 and become friends with his child Isa (Doukas, History
V.5).[135] Doukas was presumably conceived toward the beginning of the
fifteenth century and, on the off chance that he was the oldest child, most
likely had a similar name as his granddad, Michael. Doukas went through his
time on earth in the administration of the Genoese, initially in Nea Phokaia
and later on Lesbos. He communicated in Turkish and Italian, an irregularity
for Byzantine students of history. He saw that the Byzantine Empire was in
terminal decrease so was a backer of chapel association for simply down to
earth reasons and believed the Orthodox to be schismatics.
The Turko-Byzantine History of Doukas covers the years 1341
to 1462. It severs in mid-sentence in the record of the Ottoman attack of
Mytilene in Lesbos. Doukas was an onlooker to huge numbers of the occasions he
portrays. He explicitly expresses that he saw the skewered collections of
Italian mariners and portrays a government office to the sultan where Mehmed
tired to blackmail a twofold tribute from the Genoese.
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