Volume XIII - 1959

Author Category Volume Page Year Language Tomadakis N.V. BOOK REVIEWS 13 353 - 355 1959 Greek Title M. I. Manousakas, The Sifis Vlastos conspiracy on Crete (1453-1454) and the renewed conspiracy of 1460-1462. Athens 1960, octavo, 166 pp. (+6) + plates I – VI Summary PDF Presentation of the monograph by Manousos Manousakas, Director of the Academy of Athens Medieval Archive, on the conspiracy organised on Crete by Sifis Vlastos only months after the fall of Constantinople. The book also examines conspiratorial activity from 1460-1462. The historical overview of events is based on a wealth of unpublished material drawn from the Venetian archives. The subject is dealt with in an eloquent, exact, lucid and unbiased manner, by an expert on the history of the era with a full command of the Greek and foreign-language bibliography. The work thus makes a substantial contribution to historical research into the Venetian period on Crete, which has begun to attract the attention of a number of Greek and foreign scholars.