The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses Hardback
by Linda Yuretich
Part of the Translated Texts for Byzantinists series
Hardback
Description
This book translates the mid-12th-century Synopsis Chronike by Constantine Manasses which was widely circulated.
It extends to 1081, marking the end of Nikephoros Botaneiates' reign and the accession of Alexios I Komnenos.
Commissioned by the Sevastokratorissa Irene, whose sponsorship likely determined its format in verse and subject matter, the chronicle begins with a dedicatory epigram and introduction lauding Irene for her largesse and love of learning.
Manasses proceeds to relate a pastoral view of creation, biblical stories, a history of the peoples of the East, Alexander the Great's conquests and the subsequent Hellenistic empires.
He then provides a non-Homeric view of the Trojan War and continues with Rome through the Principate and early empire until the reigns of Constantine I in the East and Theodosios II in the West.
Manasses then focuses on the New Rome with a colorful treatment of its individual emperors. The chronicle attracted the attention of Emperor John Alexander for whom the Middle Bulgarian Synodal or Moscow manuscript was translated.
This is the mid-14th-century copy taken into account here with deviations from the Greek contained in the footnotes.
The so-called Middle Bulgarian Short Chronicle is interspersed in the appropriate places.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781786941510
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786941510
