Niketas Choniates
Subtitle: A Historiographical Study
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780199670710
Subjects: Byzantine empire, history
Description: Simpson uncovers the complex manuscript tradition and transmission of Niketas Choniates' History, an important historical Byzantine text. Investigating issues related to historical narrative and imperial biography, the volume explores the historian's sources and the literary models and historical concepts which guided him.