Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The "Continuation" of the "Chronicle" of John Skylitzes (1057-1079)

236 Pages·2020·6.525 MB·English, Greek

by  Eric McGeer (transl.), John W. Nesbitt (ed.)

ByzantiumintheTimeofTroubles
The Medieval Mediterranean
peoples, economies and cultures, 400–1500
ManagingEditor
FrancesAndrews(St.Andrews)
Editors
TamarHerzig(TelAviv)
PaulMagdalino(St.Andrews)
LarryJ.Simon(WesternMichiganUniversity)
DanielLordSmail(HarvardUniversity)
JoVanSteenbergen(GhentUniversity)
AdvisoryBoard
DavidAbulafia(Cambridge)
BenjaminArbel(TelAviv)
HughKennedy(SOAS,London)
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Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mmed
Byzantium
in the Time of Troubles
TheContinuationof theChronicleof
JohnSkylitzes(1057–1079)
Introduction,Translation,andNotesby
EricMcGeer
ProsopographicalIndexandGlossaryofTermsby
JohnW.Nesbitt
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Coverillustrations:
Front:ThemedievalArmeniancityofAninowinTurkeyasviewedfromArmenia.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ani_seen_from_Armenia.jpg(Lastaccessed:25July2019).
Back:SealofJohnnobelissimos,protovestiarosandgrandDomesticoftheSchoolsoftheEast(obverse),
showingStMichaelandStDemetrios.BZS1958.106.3248.©DumbartonOaks,ByzantineCollection,
WashingtonDC.
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Title:Byzantiuminthetimeoftroubles:thecontinuationoftheChronicleofJohn
Skylitzes(1057-1079)/introduction,translation,andnotesbyEricMcGeer;
prosopographicalindexandglossaryoftermsbyJohnW.Nesbitt.
Othertitles:IōannouSkylitsēChronographiassynecheia.English|Continuationof
theChronicleofJohnSkylitzes(1057-1079)
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Subjects:LCSH:ByzantineEmpire–Earlyworksto1800.|Byzantine
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ὑμεῖςἐστετὸἅλαςτῆςγῆς
Mr.JohnStrathallanDrummondNation(1900–1975)
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Départementd’Histoire,UniversitédeMontréal,1969–1989
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
ListofIllustrations xi
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1
Maps 30
TheContinuationoftheChronicleofJohnSkylitzes 36
I TheReignofIsaacIKomnenos 37
II TheReignofConstantineXDoukas 55
III TheRegencyoftheEmpressEudokia 71
IV TheReignofRomanosIVDiogenes 83
V TheMantzikertCampaignandItsAftermath 111
VI TheReignofMichaelVIIDoukas 135
VII TheAccessionofNikephorosIIIBotaneiates 177
Concordance 193
GlossaryofTerms 198
Bibliography 201
IndexofNames 213