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Writing About Byzantium - The History of Niketas Choniates (Paperback)
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Writing About Byzantium - The History of Niketas Choniates (Paperback)
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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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 start that he wrote his work hoping that even workers and
women would be able to profit from it, yet he wrote those words,
and the rest of the history, in a highly convoluted, literary and
at times opaque style and language. This examination is an
introduction to the history of Niketas, and to the author's views
of why this period saw such catastrophe for the Byzantines. It
looks at Niketas' thoughts about history-writing, the emperors, and
the Comnene dynasty in particular, about the presence of God in
man's affairs, and the historian's attitudes to the women of the
imperial family.
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