The Middle Byzantine Historians

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.

Autorentext
Warren Treadgold is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University, USA and author of many books and articles on Byzantine history and literature, including Byzantium and Its Army (1995), A History of the Byzantine State and Society (1997), A Concise History of Byzantium (2001), and The Early Byzantine Historians (2007).

Inhalt
List 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