Research Catalog

Title

Niketas Choniates : a historian and a writer / Alicia Simpson, Stephanos Efthymiadis.

Author

Simpson, Alicia

Publication

• Geneva : La Pomme d'Or, [2009]
• ©2009

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Details

Additional Authors

Efthymiadis, Stephanos

Description

272 pages, 7 pages of plates : some color illustrations, 1 map; 23 cm

Subject

• Choniates, Nicetas, approximately 1140-1213. > Congresses
• Choniates, Nicetas, approximately 1140-1213 > Congresses
• Choniates, Nicetas, approximately 1140-1213
• Nicetas Choniates 1150-1217
• Choniates, Nicetas, approximately 1140-1213 > konferenser
• History of the times (Choniates, Nicetas)
• Historians > Byzantine Empire > Congresses
• Historians
• Historiker > Bysantinska riket > konferenser
• Byzantine Empire
• Byzantijnse rijk

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congressen (vorm)
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Note on transliteration and citation -- Introduction. Niketas Choniates: the historian / Alicia Simpson -- Niketas Choniates: the writer / Stephanos Efthymiadis -- Prophecy and diviniation in the history / Paul Magdalino -- Paradox, reversal and the meaning of history / Anthony Kaldellis -- Greek and Biblical Exempla in the service of an artful writer / Stephanos Efthymiadis -- The Homeric metamorphoses of Andronikos I. Komnenos / Roderick Saxey -- The history metaphrased: changing readership in the fourteenth century / John Davis -- Niketas Choniates as a theologian / Luciano Bossina -- Narrative images of Medieval Constantinople / Alicia Simpson -- Interpreting the De signis of Niketas Choniates / Titos Papamastorakis.

ISBN

• 9789548446051
• 9548446057

OCLC

• ocn501976054
• 501976054
• SCSB-1544548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library