Nicholas Mesarites His life and works (in translation) Angold, Professor Michael.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angold, Professor Michael, author.

Series:

Translated texts for Byzantinists ; 4.

Translated Texts for Byzantinists ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

History, Ancient.

Physical Description:

Online resource (376 pages).

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

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text file

Summary:

The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea. Nicholas Mesarites is difficult to place, because the record he left behind was not that of a historian, more that of a social commentator. He preferred to highlight individual incidents and to emphasise personal experience and family relationships. He does not try to make sense of events; only to record their immediate impact. His is a fragmented autobiographical approach, which brings the reader closer to events, but leaves him to construct the bigger picture for himself; whether it is an eye... Publisher description

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ISBN:

9781802070989

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.