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Writing About Byzantium: The History of Niketas Choniates
Paperback
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGreek History
ISBN13: 9780367594169
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the twelfth century. Yet it is a very difficult and puzzling text and, given its significance, is un
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