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O City of Byzantium is the first English translation of a history which chronicles the period of Byzantine history from 1118 to 1207. The historian Niketas Choniates provides an eye-witness account of the inexorable events that led to the destruction of the longest lived Christian empire in history, and to the ultimate catastrophe of the fall of Constantinople in 1204 to the Fourth Crusade.
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AB - The De Signis by Niketas Choniates is traditionally understood as an emphatic and accurate account of the destruction of the ancient statues in Constantinople following the events of 1204. This article re-evaluates its content and manuscript transmission, and reads it as a symbolic account of the assaults against the Empire and its capital, rather than a factual report of the destruction ...
Abstract. The introduction begins with a brief description of Niketas Choniates’ History and outlines its significance as a historical source. It then examines the main issues that have occupied scholarship on the subject, i.e. Choniates’ Kaiserkritik and his explanation for the decline and fall of Byzantium. It also looks at recent ...
9. Okt. 2015 · Alicia Simpson’s unusually accomplished first book is also the first book-length study of the history of Nicetas Choniates. Simpson describes Nicetas as “the very best of Byzantine historians” (298), which may be a slight exaggeration; I would rank him second, after Procopius of Caesarea, though ahead of Michael Psellus and Anna Comnena. Nicetas’s history is a vivid and incisive ...
Niketas Choniates begins his history with the death of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118), the founder of the Komnenos dynasty, on 1η/1θ August 1118), the Feast of the Dormition (Κο σ ), commemorating the ‘“falling asleep” of the Mother of God. The emperor’s demise proved to be an occasion for political upheaval, intrigue and ...
Niketas Choniates in exile was published in Bibliophilos on page 17. Angold, Michael. "Niketas Choniates in exile" In Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World edited by Charalambos Dendrinos and Ilias Giarenis, 17-34.
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