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1 online resource |
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Cover; HEROES AND ROMANS IN TWELFTH-CENTURY BYZANTIUM; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on citations; Main characters and genealogical tables; Note on Nikephoros and Bryennios; Introduction; The Manuscript; Part I Contexts; Chapter 1 Twelfth-century politics and the House of Komnenos; Nikephoros the author; Chapter 2 Writing history in twelfth-century Constantinople; Chapter 3 Nikephoros's reading; Chapter 4 Sources for the Material for History; Part II Readings in the Material for History; Chapter 5 Problems of the Empire: civil war and mercenaries |
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Chapter 6 The rise of AlexiosChapter 7 Romans and their enemies; Chapter 8 Military virtue; Chapter 9 Roman family politics; Chapter 10 Religion and Providence; Chapter 11 Roman heroes; Chapter 12 A Roman mother; Chapter 13 A bold young man; Part III The Material for History in twelfth-century politics and culture; Chapter 14 The Material for History and imperial politics of the twelfth century; Chapter 15 Nikephoros and Anna; Chapter 16 Roman ideals and twelfth-century Constantinopolitan culture; Conclusions; Appendix 1; Appendix 2: Vocabulary of virtue; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of Princess Anna Komnene (author of the Alexiad), Bryennios is revealed as a skilled author whose history draws on cultural memories of classical Roman honor and proper masculinity to evaluate the politicians of the 1070s and implicitly to exhort his twelfth-century contemporaries to honorable behavior. Bryennios' story valorizes the memory of his grandfather and other honorable, but failed, generals of the eleventh century while subtly portraying the victorious Alexios Komnenos as un-Roman. This reading of the Material for History sheds new light on twelfth-century Byzantine culture and politics, especially the contested accession of John Komnenos, the relationship between Bryennios' history and the Alexiad and the function of cultural memories of Roman honor in Byzantium"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Bryennius, Nicephorus, approximately 1062-1137. Historiarum libri quattuor.
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Comneni dynasty, 1081-1185.
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Comneni dynasty, 1081-1185 fast |
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Historiarum libri quattuor (Bryennius, Nicephorus) fast |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Greece.
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1025-1081. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018500
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018501
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Byzantine Empire
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139569002 |
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1139569007 |
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0511933967 |
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9780511933967 |
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