The Rise and Fall of the Late Le Empire: Vietnamese Dynastic Cycle

The chronicle «Complete collection of historical inscriptions of Daiviet» is the based monument of Vietnamese historical knowledge. It is the most important source of information for the Vietnamese medieval history of Daiviet. Along with other historical monuments there is no equal source of information in Vietnam. This chronicle has been translated in the European (Russian) language for the first time. Thus those specialists, who don’t know the Vietnamese language, will be obliged to study the Vietnamese history just with the help of its Russian translation. The sixth volume of the collection consists of chapters XII- XV of «Main annals». These chapters thoroughly describe the events of 1460-1497, which happened during the reign of the most well-known emperor of the dynasty Le-So - Le Thanh- tong (1460-1497) and his successors, who could not preserve the unity of the country and it resulted to the crash of their dynasty. Fedorin’s preface, in which the author is eager to examine the events of those time, is given before the chronicle. The appendix contains the fragments from the Chinese chronicles of Ming shi and Ming shilu about Vietnamese - Chinese relationships.

Vietnam, Dai Viet, Champa, Panduranga, China, Southeast Asia, Le Thanh- Tong, Viets, Chams, Khmer