Tell your friends about this item:
Writing About Byzantium: The History of Niketas Choniates - Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies Theresa Urbainczyk 1st edition
Ordered from remote warehouse
Our customers say:
Also available as:
Writing About Byzantium: The History of Niketas Choniates - Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Theresa Urbainczyk
Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the twelfth century. Yet it is a very difficult and puzzling text and, given its significance for the period, is understudied. The author says at the start that he wrote his work hoping that even workers and women would be able to profit from it, yet he wrote those words, and the rest of the history, in a highly convoluted, literary and at times opaque style and language.
This examination is an introduction to the history of Niketas, and to the author's views of why this period saw such catastrophe for the Byzantines. It looks at Niketas' thoughts about history-writing, the emperors, and the Comnene dynasty in particular, about the presence of God in man's affairs, and the historian's attitudes to the women of the imperial family.
148 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 31, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138738683 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 148 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 196 × 15 mm · 392 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Brubaker, Leslie |
| Series Editor | Haldon, John |
| Series Editor | Murphey, Rhoads (University of Stirling, UK) |
