Niketas Choniates : A Historiographical Study.

Simpson, Alicia.
Niketas Choniates :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780191649738 (electronic bk.)
9780199670710
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0114
Yayın Bilgisi
©2013.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (389 pages)
Dizi
Oxford Studies in Byzantium Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Citation and Transliteration -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- 1. The Author: His Life and Works -- 1.1. Biography -- 1.2. Niketas and his Contemporaries -- 1.3. The Dogmatike Panoplia -- 1.4. The Orations -- 2. The Composition and Transmission of the History -- 2.1. Origins and Manuscript Tradition -- 2.2. Multiple Authorship and Interference by Later Hands -- 2.3. Patterns and Purposes of Revision -- 2.4. Manuscript Transmission -- 2.5. The Audience of the History -- 3. Historical Narrative and Imperial Biography -- 3.1. Genre and Characteristic Features -- 3.2. Narrative Structure -- 3.3. Primary Historical Characters -- 3.4. Secondary Historical Characters -- 4. Sources, Models, and Concepts -- 4.1. Written Sources -- 4.2. Oral Communications -- 4.3. The Historian's Eyewitness Testimony -- 4.4. Literary Models and Rhetorical Forms -- 4.5. Historical Concepts -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: The Manuscripts of the History -- Appendix 2: Summary of the History -- Appendix 3: Niketas, the Latins, the Turks, and the Vlach-Bulgarians -- Genealogies -- Fig. 1. Selected Genealogy of the Komnenoi -- Fig. 2. Selected Genealogy of the Angeloi -- Maps -- Map 1. Asia Minor in the twelfth century -- Map 2. The Balkans in the twelfth century -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Choniates, Nicetas, -- approximately 1140-1213. -- History of the times..
Byzantine Empire -- Historiography..
Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1081-1453..
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Angeli, 1185-1204.
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