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George Akropolites: The History - Introduction, translation and commentary (Hardcover)
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George Akropolites: The History - Introduction, translation and commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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This is the first English translation and study of George
Akropolites' History, the main Greek source for the history of
Byzantium between 1204 and 1261. Akropolites relates what happened
to Byzantium after the Latin conquest of its capital,
Constantinople, by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. He narrates the
fragmentation of the Byzantine world, describing how the newly
established 'empire' in Anatolia prevailed over its foreign and
Byzantine enemies to recapture the capital in 1261. Akropolites was
an eyewitness to most of the events he relates and a man close to
the emperors he served, and his account has therefore influenced
modern perceptions of this period. It has been an essential source
for all those studying the eastern Mediterranean in the thirteenth
century. However, until now historians have made use of his History
without knowing anything about its author. Ruth Macrides remedies
this deficiency by providing a detailed guide to Akropolites' work
and an analysis of its composition, which places it in the context
of medieval Greek historical writing.
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