03663nam 2200613 450 99620842960331620230803022810.00-19-175811-60-19-164973-2(CKB)2550000001180268(EBL)3055999(OCoLC)877444444(SSID)ssj0001113972(PQKBManifestationID)11649654(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113972(PQKBWorkID)11048435(PQKB)10189989(StDuBDS)EDZ0000176039(MiAaPQ)EBC3055999(MiAaPQ)EBC7034237(Au-PeEL)EBL7034237(EXLCZ)99255000000118026820140115d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNiketas Choniates a historiographical study /Alicia SimpsonOxford :Oxford University Press,2014.1 online resource (389 p.)Oxford Studies in ByzantiumOxford studies in ByzantiumDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-967071-4 1-306-29131-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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.Oxford Studies in ByzantiumByzantine EmpireHistoriographyByzantine EmpireHistory1081-1453Byzantine EmpireHistoryAngeli, 1185-1204949.5007202Simpson Alicia1012205MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996208429603316Niketas Choniates2348723UNISA