Kaldellis has done an immense service not only by translating Laonikos's Histories into English, but also by providing scholars and students with a volume that will provide the first point of reference for all future studies of this fifteenth-century historian. He has produced an introductory book that is clear and accessible, couched in a style that is direct and often refreshingly punchy in its presentation of argument.

Anthony Kaldellis. A New Herodotus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West. Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 33-34. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Scott Bruce, University of Colorado at Boulder