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Michael Attaleiates (mittelgriechisch Μιχαήλ Ατταλειάτης, * zwischen 1020 und 1030 in Konstantinopel oder Attaleia; † um 1085) war ein im 11. Jahrhundert lebender byzantinischer Geschichtsschreiber
Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης, translit. Michaḗl Attaleiátēs, Byzantine Greek: [mixaˈil atːaliˈatis]; c. 1022 – 1080) was a Byzantine Greek chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the second half of the eleventh ...
Publisher of original works of scholarship that have shaped our intellectual life for over a century and classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia.
Attaleiates was a highly placed legal and military official of the empire with first-hand knowledge of the events he describes. He knew many of the emperors and includes an eyewitness account of the battle of Mantzikert (1071), where the Seljuk Turks crushed the Byzantine armies and opened the door for the permanent Turkish conquest of Asia ...
28. Juni 2021 · This article re-examines Vranoussi's arguments and concludes that the evidence favours the traditional reading of Albanoi as Balkan Albanians over the interpretation of this ethnonym as an obscure reference to Norman mercenaries in territories south of Rome.
This book uses the life and work of Michael Attaleiates as a prism through which to examine important questions about eleventh century Byzantium, a long-lived medieval polity that is usually studied as exotic and distinct from both the European and the Near Eastern historical experience.
Attaleiates's History is interested in explaining the decline of the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century. The text focuses on the military and territorial losses suffered by the empire, such as the Norman conquest of Sicily, as well as numerous rebellions and civil wars.
