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| Author | : Leonora Neville |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2012-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107009456 |
This book reveals how cultural memories of classical Roman honor informed Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the eleventh century and his political choices.
| Author | : Leonora Alice Neville |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
| ISBN | : 9781139569002 |
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.
| Author | : Ingela Nilsson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2020-12-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1108843352 |
The first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses.
| Author | : Leonora Alice Neville |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 019049817X |
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for writing history and plotting to become empress by murdering her brother. This book explains how Anna broke her culture's rules for women's behavior by writing history, her efforts to be acceptable, and how her writing nonetheless fired the story of her bloodthirsty ambition.
| Author | : Ingela Nilsson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2020-12-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108910386 |
In twelfth-century Constantinople, writers worked on commission for the imperial family or aristocratic patrons. Texts were occasioned by specific events, representing both a link between writer and patron and between literary imagination and empirical reality. This is a study of how one such writer, Constantine Manasses, achieved that aim. Manasses depicted and praised the present by drawing from the rich sources of the Graeco-Roman and Biblical tradition, thus earning commissions from wealthy 'friends' during a career that spanned more than three decades. While the occasional literature of writers like Manasses has sometimes been seen as 'empty rhetoric', devoid of literary ambition, this study assumes that writing on command privileges originality and encourages the challenging of conventions. A society like twelfth-century Byzantium, in which occasional writing was central, called for a strong and individual authorial presence, since voice was the primary instrument for a successful career.
| Author | : Leonora Neville |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107039983 |
Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
| Author | : Aleksandar Jovanović |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2022-09-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3031092783 |
This book follows the public life of Michael Palaiologos from his early days and upbringing, through to his assumption of the Byzantine imperial throne in 1258. It explores multiple narratives, highlighting the various public communities in the Byzantine polity, primarily focusing on intellectuals and clerks rather than the emperor himself. Drawing on insights from power relations, studies of class and the public sphere, this book provides an account of thirteenth-century Byzantium that highlights the role of communicative and symbolic actions in the public sphere, and argues they were integral to Palaiologos' political success.
| Author | : Georgios Theotokis |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2020-10-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429574770 |
War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, political tumult, financial crisis and social disruption, but it was also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement. Despite this, the subject of warfare during this period remains underexplored. Addressing an important gap in the historiography of Byzantium, the volume argues that the eleventh century was a period of important geo-political change, when the Byzantine Empire was attacked on all sides, and its frontiers were breached. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.
| Author | : Theofili Kampianaki |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2022-09 |
| Genre | : Judaism |
| ISBN | : 0192865102 |
The twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts written in Greek that has come down to us. It was also one of the most popular historical works of the Greek-speaking world during the Middle Ages,with a remarkably large number of manuscripts preserving the entire text or parts of it.John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Reception analyses Zonaras' chronicle as both a literary composition and a historical account. It concentrates on its composition, sources, and political, ideological, and literary background. It also includesdiscussions that go beyond the text, such as on the intellectual networks surrounding Zonaras, and the anticipated audience and the reception of the chronicle. By examining such issues, Theofili Kampianaki aims to present Zonaras' chronicle as a product which emerged from a milieu characterized bythe increased contacts with Western people and the Komnenian style of rulership in the imperial bureaucracy, and as a work which seamlessly merges the traditions of chronicle writing and classicizing historiography.
| Author | : Marc D. Lauxtermann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2019-10-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351803964 |
The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with clichés and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.
