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John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes
John Skylitzes
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Paperback. The first complete English translation of John Skylitzes' Middle Byzantine chronicle, with introductions and notes, first published in 2010. Num Pages: 526 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 808. Translation and Notes. 526 pages. The first complete English translation of John Skylitzes' Middle Byzantine chronicle, with introductions and notes, first published in 2010. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 32. Weight: 816.
John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude ... Read more
John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
526
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
798g
Number of Pages
526
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107404748
SKU
V9781107404748
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Reviews for John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes
'As John Wortley indicates, this translation took many years to come to fruition. But it now has the potential to contribute very substantially to those reassessments of the political and cultural history of Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries which are currently underway in a variety of scholarly contexts across Europe and North America.' Catherine Holmes, Early Medieval Europe ... Read more