Author : Leonora Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : 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 :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : 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 : Samuel Pablo Müller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004499709
Samuel P. Müller offers here the first book-length study of the image of Latins in Byzantine historiography of the long twelfth century, arguing that this image is more complex and ambivalent than often claimed.
Author : Ingela Nilsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : 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
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2016
Category : 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 : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1438 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 110821021X
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.
Author : Ingela Nilsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : 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
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107039983
Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
Author : Aleksandar Jovanović
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : 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
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : 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.
