- Manuel Kalekas
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Manuel Kalekas (d. 1410) was a monk and theologian of the Byzantine Empire.
Kalekas was a disciple of Demetrios Kydones. He lived in Italy, Crete and Lesbos where he translated the works of Boethius and Anselm of Canterbury into Greek.[1] Kalekas translated the Comma Johanneum into Greek from the Vulgate.
Kalekas was a unionist who sought to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches. In 1390, he wrote a work castigating the Byzantines for their separation from the Western Church.
Kalekas returned to Constantinople in 1403 with the emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, but to his surprise, was not given a warm reception by his old friends. As a result, he was forced to seek refuge with the Dominicans at Mytilene, where he died in 1410.[2]
References
- ^ Browning, Robert (1992). The Byzantine Empire. CUA Press. p. 268. http://books.google.com/books?id=qp8ocRg7r2sC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=%22Manuel+Kalekas%22&source=bl&ots=eX9v7c0psK&sig=KLQrUvTv62EIY4ijXYQNLp_wzls&hl=en&ei=NEclTay5HoiqsAPO3ezkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22Manuel%20Kalekas%22&f=false.
- ^ Angold, Michael (2006). Eastern Christianity. Cambridge University Press. p. 71. http://books.google.com/books?id=vBy7CTYVBeMC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA101&dq=Palamas+rediscovery&source=bl&ots=ViTd6ObLzG&sig=cld1tHe5mgI6pr32Jb-_Rue57rY&hl=en&ei=lCQkTYWCDI32tgOw49j2AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCAQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Palamas%20rediscovery&f=false.
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See also
- Byzantine scholars in Renaissance
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