Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139569002
1139569007
0511933967
9780511933967
9781107009455
1107009456
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of Princess Anna Komnene (author of the Alexiad), Bryennios is revealed as a skilled author whose history draws on cultural memories of classical Roman honor and proper masculinity to evaluate the politicians of the 1070s and implicitly to exhort his twelfth-century contemporaries to honorable behavior. Bryennios' story valorizes the memory of his grandfather and other honorable, but failed, generals of the eleventh century while subtly portraying the victorious Alexios Komnenos as un-Roman. This reading of the Material for History sheds new light on twelfth-century Byzantine culture and politics, especially the contested accession of John Komnenos, the relationship between Bryennios' history and the Alexiad and the function of cultural memories of Roman honor in Byzantium"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970- Heroes and Romans in twelfth-century Byzantium. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107009455
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