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Nicholas Mesarites: His life and works (in translation)
Michael Angold
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Hardback. Translated works of Nicholas Mesarites, an ecclesiastic, who provides a different view of Byzantium at crisis point: the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea. Series: Translated Texts for Byzantinists. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147. .
The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea. Nicholas Mesarites is difficult to place, because the record he left ... Read more
The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea. Nicholas Mesarites is difficult to place, because the record he left ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Translated Texts for Byzantinists
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786940063
SKU
V9781786940063
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About Michael Angold
Michael Angold was Professor of Byzantine History, University of Edinburgh (1997-2005).
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