Deno John Geanakoplos
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LOCATION: New Haven, CT, United States
Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University. Author of Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West and others.
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Michael VIII Palaeologus was the Nicaean emperor (1259–61) and then Byzantine emperor (1261–82), who in 1261 restored the Byzantine Empire to the Greeks after 57 years of Latin occupation and who founded the Palaeologan dynasty, the last and longest-lived of the empire’s ruling houses. A scion of…
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