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Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium - The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios (Hardcover, New)
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Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium - The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios (Hardcover, New)
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Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s
is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of
the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the
passive and unambitious husband of Princess Anna Komnene (author of
the Alexiad), Bryennios is revealed as a skilled author whose
history draws on cultural memories of classical Roman honor and
proper masculinity to evaluate the politicians of the 1070s and
implicitly to exhort his twelfth-century contemporaries to
honorable behavior. Bryennios' story valorizes the memory of his
grandfather and other honorable, but failed, generals of the
eleventh century while subtly portraying the victorious Alexios
Komnenos as un-Roman. This reading of the Material for History
sheds new light on twelfth-century Byzantine culture and politics,
especially the contested accession of John Komnenos, the
relationship between Bryennios' history and the Alexiad and the
function of cultural memories of Roman honor in Byzantium.
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