Alterum Byzantium

Series | Alterum Byzantium
Volume 2 | Monograph | Giovanni VI Cantacuzeno e l’Islam

Giovanni VI Cantacuzeno e l’Islam

Le Apologiae e le Orationes: introduzione, traduzione e commentario

open access | peer reviewed
  • Marco Fanelli - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email

Abstract

This volume presents a revised interpretative framework and a comprehensive analysis of the anti-Islamic corpus composed by Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus. Particular attention is devoted to the transmission of the text within the broader manuscript tradition of Cantacuzenus’s oeuvre, its intertextual relationship with earlier sources, and, most significantly, its engagement with Demetrios Cydones’s Greek translation of Riccoldo da Monte di Croce’s Contra legem Sarracenorum. These dimensions are indispensable for situating the corpus within the wider context of Cantacuzenus’s literary and ideological production. By approaching the work as an instance of apologetic polemic, this study repositions the corpus within the author's intellectual trajectory and underscores its remarkable originality in the context of Byzantine anti-Islamic literature. The volume includes a complete Italian translation of the text.

Keywords Muhammad • Byzantine Literature • Islam • Apologetica • Christian-Muslim Relations • Latin-Greek Translations • Bisanzio • ­Byzantium • Qur’anic Studies • John VI Cantacuzenus • Cantacuzeno • Paleologan Period • Riccoldo da Monte di Croce • Polemistica • Byzantine anti-Islamic Literature • Demetrius Cydones

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-838-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-838-5 | Published May 29, 2025 | Accepted March 28, 2024 | Submitted Sept. 22, 2023 | Language gr, it

Copyright © 2025 Marco Fanelli. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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