Palaiologan

English

Alternative forms

• Palaeologan

Noun

Palaiologan (plural Palaiologans)

1. (historical) A member of the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, which reigned from AD 1261 to AD 1453.
   • 2010, Liz James, A Companion to Byzantium, →ISBN, page 345:

     Scholars have also posited renaissances after the tenth century during the reign of the Komnenes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and under the Palaiologans in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Adjective

Palaiologan (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the reign of the Palaiologans.
   • 2007, Carol M. Richardson, Locating Renaissance Art, →ISBN, page 198:

     Palaiologan art favoured tall, robust figures wrapped in garments that revealed the body underneath.

   • 2014, Stephanos Efthymiadis, The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, →ISBN:

     Regardless of style, there is no doubt that Palaiologan hagiography was written by urban authors addressing urban audiences whether in Constantinople or Thessalonike.

   • 2014, Cecily J. Hilsdale, Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline, →ISBN, page 185:

     The imagery of the Virgin of the Walls and the imperial scene of supplication and presentation celebrate the restored Byzantine city and its centrality in the early Palaiologan conception of empire.