John Eugenikos
John Eugenikos (Constantinople, after 1394 – Laconia, after 1454/5) was a late Byzantine cleric and writer. He was the brother of Mark Eugenikos, and like him an ardent opponent of the Union of the Churches. Originally a notary and nomophylax at the Patriarchate of Constantinople, his opposition to the Union saw him exiled to the Despotate of the Morea, where he died.
Also recorded as Iōannēs Eugenikos · Ioannis Eugenikos
John Eugenikos
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- Byzantine Empire
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- deacon · theologian · writer
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- medieval Greek
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John participated briefly in the Council of Florence that ratified the Union, and also travelled to Trebizond and Mesembria. A prolific writer, from polemical writings attacking the Union to rhetorical ekphraseis and monodies, prayers, hymns and sermons, including an ekphrasis of Trebizond and a lament on the Fall of Constantinople. Thirty-six of his letters survive, but most of his corpus remains unpublished.
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- Talbot, Alice-Mary. Eugenikos, John. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. 741–742. 1991. 978-0-19-504652-6.
- Aglae Pizzone. "Feeling the rhythm of the waves: 'castaway rhetoric' in John Eugenikos' Logos eucharisterios", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 37 (2013), pp. 190–207.
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