1st Edition
Writing About Byzantium The History of Niketas Choniates
By Theresa Urbainczyk
Copyright 2018
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the twelfth century. Yet it is a very difficult and puzzling text and, given its significance for the period, is understudied. The author says at the... Read more
1. The puzzle of the History of Niketas Choniates 2. ‘A history for workers and women’: Statements of intent in the Preface 3. The world of Byzantine women 4. Hellenism and Classicism in the History 5. The influence of the Old Testament 6. Niketas on the emperors 7. Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2
Biography
Theresa Urbainczyk taught in the School of Classics, University College Dublin from 1992 to 2017. She is the author of Socrates of Constantinople: Historian of Church and State (1997), Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Bishop and the Holy Man (2002), Spartacus (2004), and Slave Revolts in Antiquity (2008).
