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Autore: |
Simpson Alicia
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Titolo: |
Niketas Choniates : a historiographical study / / Alicia Simpson
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
Disciplina: | 949.5007202 |
Soggetto geografico: | Byzantine Empire Historiography |
Byzantine Empire History 1081-1453 | |
Byzantine Empire History Angeli, 1185-1204 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Niketas Choniates ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-175811-6 |
0-19-164973-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996208429603316 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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