The Middle Byzantine Historians [Hardcover]

This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.EPUBList of Maps Preface 1. The Dark Age 2. George Syncellus and Theophanes Confessor 3. Theophanes' Successors 4. Historians under Leo the Wise 5. The Official Histories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 6. Symeon the Logothete and Pseudo-Symeon 7. Historians of the Age of Expansion 8. Michael Psellus 9. Psellus' Contemporaries 10. Nicephorus Bryennius and Anna Comnena 11. Anna Comnena's Contemporaries 12. Nicetas Choniates 13. The Historians as a Group Chronological Table of the Middle Byzantine Historians List of English Translations of the Middle Byzantine Historians Bibliography

There are books on this topic that summarize existing scholarship, but this is not one of them. Warren Treadgold presents original arguments for almost every text that he discusses and usually makes a strong case . . . In sum, this is definitely a book that any scholar who uses these texts will have to consult and either agree or disagree with, and that includes almost all Byzantinists who work in this period. Professor Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio State University, US

The Middle Byzantine Historians offers invaluable portraits of known and relatively obscure historians, their work, and the Byzantine intellectual scene as a whole. A welcome addition to our body of knowledge, MBH raises important questions and demands Byzantinists' careful attention, engagement, and reaction. - Speculum

The book accords due weight to a tradition of historical writing stretching back to classical and biblical times and enables us to put individual histories into context, in a way which was not previously possible. One of tlƒ%