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The volume Niketas
Choniates. A Historian and a Writer (eds.) A. Simpson
and S. Efthymiadis is the first scholarly volume to be
published on the History of Niketas Choniates. Its major
aim is to offer new perspectives on how the History of
Niketas Choniates should be read and interpreted. As
such, it follows an interdisciplinary approach and is
concerned with a wide range of aspects of this lengthy,
significant, and multi-faceted text.
The ten essays
examine various historical, literary, theological, and
art historical issues of the text and demonstrate how
these should be viewed as an integral part of the
narrative. Moreover, alongside more traditional
historical analysis and source-criticism, several essays
promote the reading of the text as a literary artefact
and uncover the rhetorical techniques by which
historical reality was represented by a highly educated
and intelligent eye-witness of dramatic events. It is
expected that the volume will make a major contribution
to scholarship on the subject and stimulate interest and
discussion on the History and its author.
Due to its
interdisciplinary character, it will be of particular
value not only for scholars and students of Byzantine
literature and culture, but also for those working in
related fields, such as art history, medieval history,
literary interpretation, and theology.
Contents:
Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas
Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis,
Niketas Choniates: the Writer
Paul Magdalino:
Prophecy and Divination in the History
Anthony Kaldellis:
Paradox, Reversal and the Meaning of History
Stephanos Efthymiadis:
Greek and Biblical Exempla in the Service of an
Artful Writer
Roderick Saxey:
The Homeric Metamorphoses of Andronikos I Komnenos
John Davis:
The History Metaphrased: Changing Readership in the
Fourteenth Century
Luciano Bossina:
Niketas Choniates as a Theologian
Alicia Simpson:
Narrative Images of Medieval Constantinople
Titos Papamastorakis:
Interpreting the De Signis of Niketas Choniates
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