The Middle Byzantine historians /

The Middle Byzantine historians /

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Author / Creator:Treadgold, Warren, 1949- author.
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
©2013
Description:xvii, 546 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Historiography -- Byzantine Empire.
Historians -- Byzantine Empire.
Historians.
Historiography.
Byzantine Empire -- Historiography.
Byzantine Empire.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9898654
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ISBN:1137280859
9781137280855
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-517) and index.
Summary:The Middle Byzantine Historians, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians, is the first book to analyze the lives and works of every significant Byzantine historian from the seventh to the thirteenth century. Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, it describes forty-three historians who usually knew their emperors personally. Besides obscure but intriguing figures like the exiled Sergius Confessor, father of the Patriarch Photius, and the embittered monk Nicetas the Paphlagonian, author of a Secret History that denounced Photius, the historians include the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: the courtier Michael Psellus, who depicts the flawed personalities of the fourteen emperors and empresses of his time, Princess Anna Comnena, who makes a spirited defense of her father Alexius I, and Nicetas Choniates, a provincial who rose to head the whole Byzantine bureaucracy and told the story of his empire's decline from great power to destruction by the Fourth Crusade.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps
  • Preface
  • 1. The Dark Age
  • History without historians
  • Trajan the Patrician
  • Tarasius and the continuer of Trajan
  • Nicephorus of Constantinople
  • The recovery of historiography
  • 2. George Syncellus and Theophanes Confessor
  • George and Theophanes
  • George's Selection
  • Theophanes and the Chronography
  • 3. Theophanes' Successors
  • Theognostus the Grammarian
  • Sergius Confessor and the Scriptor Incertus
  • Ignatius the Deacon and Photius
  • The Epitome and Continuation of Theophanes
  • George the Monk
  • 4. Historians under Leo the Wise
  • Minor or spurious historians
  • The History of Basil I and Leo VI
  • Nicetas the Paphlagonian and the "secular and sacred history"
  • Nicetas' Secret History
  • 5. The Official Histories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus
  • Constantine and the Historical Excerpts
  • The Life of Basil
  • Joseph Genesius
  • Theophanes Continuatus
  • 6. Symeon the Logothete and Pseudo-Symeon
  • Manuel the Protospatharius
  • Symeon the Logothete
  • Pseudo-Symeon
  • 7. Historians of the Age of Expansion
  • Nicephorus the Deacon and the History to 971
  • Leo the Deacon
  • Theodore of Side and Theodore of Sebastea
  • Demetrius of Cyzicus and John the Monk of Lydia
  • 8. Michael Psellus
  • Psellus' career
  • Psellus' Concise History
  • Psellus' Chronography
  • The uniqueness of the Chronography
  • 9. Psellus' Contemporaries
  • Xiphilinus' Epitome of Dio
  • Michael Attaliates
  • John Scylitzes
  • George Cedrenus
  • 10. Nicephorus Bryennlus and Anna Comnena
  • Nicephorus Bryennius
  • Anna Comnena
  • Anna's Alexiad
  • The character of the Alexiad
  • 11. Anna Comnena's Contemporaries
  • John Zonaras
  • Constantine Manasses
  • Michael Glycas
  • John Cinnamus
  • Eustathius of Thessalonica
  • 12. Nicetas Choniates
  • Nicetas' life
  • Nicetas' Chronological Narrative
  • Nicetas and the decline of the empire
  • 13. The Historians as a Group
  • The historians
  • The histories
  • The historiography
  • Chronological Table of the Middle Byzantine Historians
  • List of English Translations of the Middle Byzantine Historians
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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