the chronology of the capture of Thessalonica cf.Charanis,‘Short Chronicle’,359 ff.,Loenertz‘M.Paléologue et D.Cydonès’,478 ff.,Dennis Manuel II,151 ff.Apparently Thessalonica was again freed from the Turks and,as Loenertz,op.cit.483,shows,was then stocomd by Bajezid Ⅰ on 12 April 1394.New evidence that Thessalonica was still in Byzantine hands in January 1394 is given by M.Laskaris,(1951),331 ff.
[205]There is little certain information about the course of the battle,since contemporary accounts of it are inadequate and legends soon grew up round the events.Cf.the critical survey by S.Cirkovicin S.Novakovic,Srbi i Turci(Serbs and Turks)(1960),453 ff.For recent literature on the battle of Kosovo see ibid.,470.On the accounts given by Byzantine sources cf.especially N.Radojcic,`Die griechischen Quellen zur Schlacht am Kosovo Polje’,B 6(1931),241 ff.Cf.also M.Braun,Kosovo,die Schlacht auf dem Amselfeld in geschichtlicher und epischerüberlieferung,Leipzig 1937.
[206]Cf.I.Bozic,Dohodak carski,Belgrade 1956,54 ff.G.Ostrogorsky,‘Byzance,Etat tributaire de l’Empire turc’,ZRVI 5(1958),53 ff.
[207]In addition to Dolger,‘Johannes VⅡ’and Charanis,‘Palaeologi and Ottoman Turks’,G.Kolias, 12(1951),36-64,has now produced an authoritative investigation into the history for John Ⅱ’s coup d’état,which for the first tcom makes thorough use of the important eye-witness account of Ignatius of Smolensk.
[208]This is clear from the account of Ignatius of Smolensk;cf.Koli
『加入书签,方便阅读』