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Attaleiates, Michael

 
9780674057999: The History (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674057996 ISBN 13: 9780674057999
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and all of Asia Minor into Armenia and Syria. By 1079 it had become a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by powerful enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal, and offers a gripping narrative of the foreign and civil wars of those years. Attaleiates was a highly placed legal and military official of the empire with first-hand knowledge of the events he describes. He knew many of the emperors and includes an eyewitness account of the battle of Mantzikert (1071), where the Seljuk Turks crushed the Byzantine armies and opened the door for the permanent Turkish conquest of Asia Minor. He also provides vivid narratives of civil unrest and decries the corruption and economic exploitation of his society, looking to the heroes of the Roman Republic for models of nobility.

Michael Attaleiates History has never before been translated into English. The present translation, based on the most recent critical edition, makes the text accessible through its notes, maps, and glossary of Byzantine terms.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University.

Dimitris Krallis is Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674057996
ISBN 13 
9780674057999
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
636
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