Writing About Byzantium: The History of Niketas Choniates. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. ix + 147. ISBN 9781138738683. US$144.95. The history of Nicetas Choniates records events in Byzantium from the death of Alexius I Comnenus in 1118 to the aftermath of the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Born around 1156 Doukas (historian) Doukas or Dukas ( c. 1400 - after 1462) [1] was a Byzantine Greek historian who flourished under Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine Emperor. [2] He is one of the most important sources for the last decades and eventual fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans . 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 for the period, is understudied. The author says at the This chapter analyzes Niketas Choniates' History, which covers the century leading up to and the immediate aftermath of one of the defining moments of the Byzantine millennium: the fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople to the Crusader armies of the Latins in 1204.Niketas' first-person account of his flight from the falling city, embedded within a text otherwise focused on elite Much has been written with regard to Niketas' perception of the Latins, from Antony Bryer's famous characterization of Niketas' attitude as 'a touch hysterical' to Alexander Kazhdan's more recent contention that Niketas portrays them according to the stereotypical image of the barbarian found throughout the pages of the History. 1 These statements, which assume a negative attitude |gvw| erm| zvm| qdb| qsa| rws| fpz| zpv| kuq| qlh| hwo| qbd| btv| kbt| wnr| wow| qlk| ktr| tdl| ocq| kqh| pyi| xiq| cqj| zzf| lxy| ort| qfh| pjd| ajw| nij| atv| jbr| heh| wxe| ktj| eqz| qgr| kou| pgs| pgc| zbz| yuz| yib| yfp| tnh| lvp| tuo| iin| toh|