The historical work by Dukas (c. 1400 after 1462) has been newly edited in this volume based on the codex unicus of the Greek text and the old Italian translation, supplemented with explanatory commentary and, for the first time, translated into German. Dukas was at once a participant and observer of many of the events he describes in the Aegean region and Western Asia Minor that culminated in the sack of Constantinople on 29 May 1453.

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Diether Roderich Reinsch, Freie Universität Berlin.