John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192865102
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Book Synopsis John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories by : Theofili Kampianaki

Download or read book John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories written by Theofili Kampianaki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts written in Greek that has come down to us. It was also one of the most popular historical works of the Greek-speaking world during the Middle Ages,with a remarkably large number of manuscripts preserving the entire text or parts of it.John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Reception analyses Zonaras' chronicle as both a literary composition and a historical account. It concentrates on its composition, sources, and political, ideological, and literary background. It also includesdiscussions that go beyond the text, such as on the intellectual networks surrounding Zonaras, and the anticipated audience and the reception of the chronicle. By examining such issues, Theofili Kampianaki aims to present Zonaras' chronicle as a product which emerged from a milieu characterized bythe increased contacts with Western people and the Komnenian style of rulership in the imperial bureaucracy, and as a work which seamlessly merges the traditions of chronicle writing and classicizing historiography.

The History of Zonaras

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134424728
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Zonaras by : Thomas Banchich

Download or read book The History of Zonaras written by Thomas Banchich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources are lost or appear elsewhere in more truncated form, his testimony and the identification of the texts on which he depends are of critical importance. For his account of the first two centuries of the Principate, Zonaras employed now-lost portions of Cassius Dio. From the point where Dio’s History ended, to the reign of Theodosius the Great (d. 395), he turned to other sources to produce a uniquely full historical narrative of the critical years 235-395, making Books XII.15-XIII.19 of the Epitome central to the study of both late Roman history and late Roman and Byzantine historiography. This key section of the Epitome, together with Zonaras’ Prologue, here appears in English for the first time, both complemented by a historical and historiographical commentary. A special feature of the latter is a first-ever English translation of a broad range of sources which illuminate Zonaras’ account and the historiographical traditions it reflects. Among the authors whose newly translated works occupy a prominent place in the commentary are George Cedrenus, George the Monk, John of Antioch, Peter the Patrician, Symeon Magister, and Theodore Scutariotes. Specialized indices facilitate the use of the translations and commentary alike. The result is an invaluable guide and stimulus to further research for scholars and students of the history and historiography of Rome and Byzantium.

The Middle Byzantine Historians

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137280867
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Book Synopsis The Middle Byzantine Historians by : W. Treadgold

Download or read book The Middle Byzantine Historians written by W. Treadgold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.

The Lost History of Peter the Patrician

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317501446
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Book Synopsis The Lost History of Peter the Patrician by : Thomas M. Banchich

Download or read book The Lost History of Peter the Patrician written by Thomas M. Banchich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s History, including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous Continuer. Banchich’s annotation helps clarify the relationship of Peter's work to that of Cassius Dio. Focusing on the historical and historiographical rather than philological, he provides a strong framework for the understanding of this increasingly important source for the third and fourth centuries A.D. With an introduction on Peter himself - a distinguished administrator and diplomat at the court of Justinian – assessing his literary output, the relationship of the fragments of Peter's History to the fragments of the Anonymous Continuer, and the contentious issue of the place of this evidence within the framework of late antique historiography, The Lost History of Peter the Patrician will be an invaluable resource for those interested in the history of the Roman world in general and of the third and fourth centuries A.D. in particular.

Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108918239
Total Pages : 697 pages
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Book Synopsis Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History by : Caillan Davenport

Download or read book Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History written by Caillan Davenport and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman History of Cassius Dio provides one of the most important continuous narratives of the early Roman empire, spanning the inception of the Principate under Augustus to the turbulent years of the Severan Dynasty. It has been a major influence on how scholars have thought about Roman imperial history, from the Byzantine period down to the present day, as well as being a work of considerable literary sophistication and merit. This book, the product of an international collaborative project, brings together thirteen chapters written by scholars based in Europe, North America, and Australia. They offer new approaches to Dio's representation of Roman emperors, their courtiers, and key political constituencies such as the army and the people, as well as the literary techniques he uses to illuminate his narrative, from speeches to wonder narratives.

History as Literature in Byzantium

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351930648
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Book Synopsis History as Literature in Byzantium by : Ruth Macrides

Download or read book History as Literature in Byzantium written by Ruth Macrides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history. Whatever can be called literary in these works has been considered as external and detachable from the facts. The 'classical tradition' inherited by Byzantine writers, the features that Byzantine authors imitated and absorbed, are regarded as standing in the way of understanding the true meaning of the text and, furthermore, of contaminating the reliability of the history. Chronicles, whose language and style are anything but classicizing, have been held in low esteem, for they are seen as providing a mere chronological exposition of events. This book presents a set of articles by an international cast of contributors, deriving from papers delivered at the 40th annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. They are concerned with historical and visual narratives that date from the sixth to the fourteenth century, and aim to show that literary analyses and the study of pictorial devices, far from being tangential to the study of historical texts, are preliminary to their further study, exposing the deeper structures and purposes of these texts.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 5 (1350-1500)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252789
Total Pages : 791 pages
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Download or read book Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 5 (1350-1500) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 5 (CMR 5), covering the period 1350-1500, is a continuing volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the seventh century to 1900. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 5, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as an indispensable tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations.

John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139489151
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057 written by John Skylitzes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.

Epitome historiarum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
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The ‘Lost Arian History’ in Late Antique and Medieval Historiography

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031554442
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis The ‘Lost Arian History’ in Late Antique and Medieval Historiography by : Joseph J. Reidy

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(Re)writing History in Byzantium

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000068757
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Book Synopsis (Re)writing History in Byzantium by : Panagiotis Manafis

Download or read book (Re)writing History in Byzantium written by Panagiotis Manafis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planudea (thirteenth century). Three aspects of these texts are analysed in detail: their method of redaction, their literary structure, and their cultural and political function. Combining codicological, literary, and political analyses, this study contributes to a better understanding of the intertwining of knowledge and power, and suggests that these collections of historical excerpts should be seen as a Byzantine way of rewriting history. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429351020, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004384553
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Book Synopsis Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome by : Christopher Burden-Strevens

Download or read book Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome written by Christopher Burden-Strevens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome brings together ten studies on the literary, historiographical, rhetorical, and generic and textual dimensions of the least explored section of Dio’s enormous history of Rome: Books 1–21.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414111
Total Pages : 988 pages
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2 written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. This is a history of Europe, but the continent is interpreted widely to include the Near East and North Africa. The volume is divided into two parts of which this, the second, deals with the course of events - ecclesiastical and secular - and major developments in an age marked by the transformation of the position of the papacy in a process fuelled by a radical reformation of the church, the decline of the western and eastern empires, the rise of western kingdoms and Italian elites, and the development of governmental structures, the beginnings of the recovery of Spain from the Moors and the establishment of western settlements in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of the crusades.

Writing the Early Crusades

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839202
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book Writing the Early Crusades written by Marcus Graham Bull and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering approach to contemporary historical writing on the First Crusade, looking at the texts as cultural artefacts rather than simply for the evidence they contain.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521364478
Total Pages : 920 pages
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024 written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004689354
Total Pages : 570 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did humans and the environment impact each other in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean? How did global climatic fluctuations affect the Byzantine Empire over the course of a millennium? And how did the transmission of pathogens across long distances affect humans and animals during this period? This book tackles these and other questions about the intersection of human and natural history in a systematic way. Bringing together analyses of historical, archaeological, and natural scientific evidence, specialists from across these fields have contributed to this volume to outline the new discipline of Byzantine environmental history. Contributors are: Johan Bakker, Henriette Baron, Chryssa Bourbou, James Crow, Michael J. Decker, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, John Haldon, Adam Izdebski, Eva Kaptijn, Jürg Luterbacher, Henry Maguire, Mischa Meier, Lee Mordechai, Jeroen Poblome, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Abigail Sargent, Peter Talloen, Costas Tsiamis, Ralf Vandam, Myrto Veikou, Sam White, and Elena Xoplaki

Linguistic and Literary Studies in the Epitome Historion of John Zonaras

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Total Pages : 244 pages
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