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Niketas Choniates GUIDE TO BYZANTINE HISTORICAL WRITING This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classi• cizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiog• raphy, sweeping, fast-paced "chronicle"-type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical texts, it distills the results of complex, multilin• gual, specialist scholarship into clear explanations of the basic infor• mation needed to approach each medieval Greek history. It provides a sound basis for further research on each text by describing what we know about the time of composition, content covered by the history, authorship, extant manuscripts, previous editions and translations, and basic bibliography. Even-handed explanations of scholarly debates give readers the information they need to assess controversies independently. A comprehensive introduction orients students and nonspecialists to the traditions and methods of Byzantine historical writing. It will prove an invaluable timesaver for Byzantinists and an essential gateway for classicists, western medievalists, and students. LEONORA NEVILLE is a historian of Byzantine culture and society. Her work on Byzantine historical writing has dealt with how Byzantine authors interacted with classical models of history writing and culture and tried to shape contemporary opinion by writing history. She is the author of Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian (2016), Heroes and Romans in Twelfih- Century Byzantium: The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society: p$o—lloo (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin. She was the co-winner of the 2007 edition of the Prize in Memory of Nikolaos Panagiotakis. A passionate teacher, she has developed the first graduate class on teaching in the University of Wisconsin history department. GUIDE TO BYZANTINE HISTORICAL WRITING LEONORA NEVILLE University of Wisconsin, Madison With the assistance of DAVID HARRISVILLE, IRINA TAMARKINA, and CHARLOTTE WHATLEY MM CAMBRIDGE ^0 UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia 314—321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi — 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107691162 DOI: 10.1017/9781139626880 © Leonora Neville 2018 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2018 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays Ltd. 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For Harvey and Martha Rhody Contents Acknowledgments page xi Introduction i BYZANTINE HISTORICAL TEXTS 1 Theophylakt Simokatta 47 2 Paschal Chronicle 52 3 George Synkellos 56 4 Chronicle of Theophanes 61 5 Patriarch Nikephoros 72 6 Scriptor Incertus de Leo V 78 7 Chronicle of 811 81 8 Megas Chronographos 85 9 George the Monk 87 10 Peter of Alexandria 93 11 Genesios 95 12 Theophanes Continuatus 101 13 Constantinian Excerpts no 14 John Kaminiates 114 15 Symeon the Logothete 118 16 Leo the Deacon 124 vii viii Contents ij Chronicle of Monemvasia 128 18 Chronicon Bruxellense 135 19 Psellos 137 20 John Xiphilinos 147 21 Michael Attaleiates 150 22 John Skylitzes and Scylitzes Continuatus 155 23 George Kedrenos 162 24 Nikephoros Bryennios 169 25 Anna Komnene 174 26 John Kinnamos 186 27 John Zonaras 191 28 Constantine Manasses 200 29 Michael Glykas 205 30 Eustathios of Thessaloniki 210 31 Joel 216 32 Niketas Choniates 219 33 George Akropolites 226 34 Theodore Skoutariotes 232 35 George Pachymeres 237 36 Nikephoros Gregoras 243 37 Ephraim 249 38 Constantine Akropolites the Grand Logothete 252 39 Chronicle of Morea 254 40 Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos 260 41 John VI Kantakouzenos 266 42 Michael Panaretos 273 Contents ix 43 Chronicle of Ioannina 275 44 Chronicle ofTocco 278 45 John Kananos 281 46 John Anagnostes 285 47 Leontios Machairas 289 48 Sylvester Syropoulos 293 49 Doukas 298 50 George Sphrantzes 302 51 Michael Kritovoulos 308 52 Laonikos Chalkokondyles 312 Appendix A Time Periods Covered in the Histories 319 Appendix B Timeline of Authors' Lives 322 Acknowledgmen ts This project would have been far more than I could take on had it not been for the efforts of outstanding graduate students. Irina Tamarkina prepared preliminary bibliographies for many of the texts and gathered substantial research, particularly on the seventh- through tenth-century texts. She curated the Russian and Serbian items in the bibliographies. David Harrisville prepared bibliographies and did research on many of the later texts, focusing particularly on the biographies of the authors. Charlotte Whatley helped with research and served as copyeditor, Chicago Manual of Style enforcer, and did a final check for recent bibliography on all the texts. Emily Lobenstein standardized the transliteration of all the Slavic-language titles. They all have my abiding gratitude, not only for the fruits of their labors, but for graciousness in the face of frustra• tion and delightful willingness to see humor in the arcane. Obviously, all the mistakes are mine. Further thanks are due to the outstanding readers for Cambridge University Press, who provided numerous detailed and learned suggestions. I am grateful for Michael Sharp's unwavering support throughout the project. The staff of the Interlibrary Loan department at the University of Wisconsin Madison helped this project by finding hundreds of articles and books that were not in our research library. Their lightning-fast service kept the project moving swiftly and brought the scholarly resources of the world to the shores of Lake Mendota. Thanks go to Cassandra Callewaert, Joscelin Eberle, Clara Fehrenbach, Melissa Frazier, Rebecca Rosenstiel, and Rachel Smith. The generous research funding opportunities available at the University of Wisconsin Madison made this project possible. In 2012 and 2013, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation provided three semesters and two summers of funding for Irina Tamarkina, and a summer of funding for myself. A Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor award allowed me to have a reduced teaching load in the spring semester of 2017 and xi xii Acknowledgments provided summer funding for David Harrisville and Charlotte Whatley in 2016, and for Charlotte Whatley and Emily Lobenstein in the summer of 2017. Without the support of John and Jeanne Rowe, the University of Wisconsin would not have a Byzantine historian. I am deeply grateful to all. As always, it is a joy to thank Evangeline, Anselm, and Stephen for their support and affection. 1 Introduction Th is guide aims to make the riches of medieval histories written in Greek easily accessible to anyone who may be interested. It is a gesture of wel- come to classicists, to western medievalists, as well as to students beginning their intellectual exploration of the world. While it contains no informa- tion that a diligent Byzantinist could not track down with time, gathering the information into one place may help them as well. Th e purpose is to provide a reliable starting point for research by explaining the basics of what we know about a text and how we know it, while avoiding the repeti- tion of scholarly speculation. Calculated guesswork is part of doing medi- eval history, and I am all in favor of a good supposition from time to time. Yet often one scholar’s reasonable guess is soon cited as fact, so that later readers do not know the relative stability of the ground they are building on. Th e goal here is to set a fi rm foundation and let you do the speculating. Where this guide may innovate is in putting the emphasis on explo- ration of the surviving texts, rather than on medieval authors. Since the early modern period, scholars have been keenly interested in recov- ering the biographies of the individuals who wrote the histories, and reconstructing texts that no longer survive on the basis of hints in the manuscripts that do survive. Th e search for the lives and careers of creative agents was a natural expression of the Renaissance interest in individuals. Th is basic project animated the fi eld well into the twentieth century, and much of the scholarship cited in the following pages is committed to recovering the lives of medieval authors. Developments in late- twentieth- century thought, commonly discussed under the rubric of the “linguistic turn,” have shifted the focus of much scholarship from reconstructing individuals to analyzing texts. 1 Quite apart from the changing fashions 1 Gabrielle Spiegel , “ Th e Future of the Past: History, Memory and the Ethical Imperatives of Writing History ,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 8 ( 2014 ): 149– 79 . Elizabeth A. Clark , History, Th eory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2004 ) . 1 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University College London (UCL), on 15 Jun 2018 at 20:11:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.
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