The Middle Byzantine Historians [electronic resource] /
Treadgold, W.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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 historiansThe 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 Lydia8 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 Bryennius 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 NarrativeNicetas 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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Social history.
Europe—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Civilization—History.
World history.
Europe—History—To 476.
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European History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Cultural History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Ancient Europe.