John Kaminiates The Capture Of Thessaloniki

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John Kaminiates The Capture Of Thessaloniki

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Author : John Kaminiates
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2000-01-01

John Kaminiates The Capture Of Thessaloniki written by John Kaminiates and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with History categories.

During the ninth century the Saracen Arabs, who had been expelled from the caliphate of Spain, became an increasing threat to the Byzantine empire, particularly after they established themselves on the island of Crete. In 904 a Saracen force led by Leo of Tripoli sailed to the northern Aegean, captured Abydos and prepared to assault Constantinople, but then in a sudden change of plan sailed westward and captured Thessaloniki after a brief siege. The defences of the city had been neglected and the last-minute attempts which were made to improve them had little effect. The victors sacked the city for ten days, then departed taking as many prisoners as they could hold on board their ships. One of these prisoners was Kaminiates, who was later set free in an exchange of prisoners. He subsequently wrote a detailed account of the siege. This book presents the Greek text (as established by Gertrud Böhlig, reprinted by permission of the publisher, W. De Gruyter), together with the first English translation, made by David Frendo, and an introduction and notes by David Frendo and Thanos Fotiou.

The Capture Of Thessaloniki

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Author : Iōannēs (Kameniatēs)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

The Capture Of Thessaloniki written by Iōannēs (Kameniatēs) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Byzantine Empire categories.

Eustathios Of Thessaloniki The Capture Of Thessaloniki

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1987-01-01

Eustathios Of Thessaloniki The Capture Of Thessaloniki written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with History categories.

The Capture Of Thessaloniki

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Author : John R. Melville Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

The Capture Of Thessaloniki written by John R. Melville Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Normans categories.

Eustathios Of Thessaloniki

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Author : Eustathius (Thessalonicensis.)
language : el
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Eustathios Of Thessaloniki written by Eustathius (Thessalonicensis.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.

Witness Literature In Byzantium

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Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-08-06

Witness Literature In Byzantium written by Adam J. Goldwyn and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with History categories.

This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates’ History (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.

Edinburgh History Of The Greeks C 500 To 1050

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Author : Florin Curta
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-24

Edinburgh History Of The Greeks C 500 To 1050 written by Florin Curta and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with History categories.

This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050.

Siegecraft

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Author : Denis F. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 2000

Siegecraft written by Denis F. Sullivan and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.

The "Parangelmata Poliorcetica" and the "Geodesia," two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the archetype manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1605 and accompanied by an English translation and commentary. The illustrations, reproduced in this edition, go beyond the traditional ground plans of the time and show elevations to represent finished devices in action.

A Companion To The Byzantine Culture Of War Ca 300 1204

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-04

A Companion To The Byzantine Culture Of War Ca 300 1204 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with History categories.

The Byzantine Culture of War offers a critical approach to the study of military organisation and warfare as fundamental aspects of the East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The Byzantine City From Heraclius To The Fourth Crusade 610 1204

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Author : Luca Zavagno
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-06

The Byzantine City From Heraclius To The Fourth Crusade 610 1204 written by Luca Zavagno and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-06 with History categories.

This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204. Throughout this period, cities were always the centers of political and social life for both secular and religious authorities, and, furthermore, the focus of the economic interests of local landowning elites. This book therefore examines the regional and subregional trajectories in the urban function, landscape, structure and fabric of Byzantium’s cities, synthesizing the most cutting-edge archaeological excavations, the results of analyses of material culture (including ceramics, coins, and seals) and a reassessment of the documentary and hagiographical sources. The transformation the Byzantine urban landscape underwent from the seventh to thirteenth centuries can afford us a better grasp of changes to the Byzantine central and provincial administrative apparatus; their fiscal machinery, military institutions, socio-economic structures and religious organization. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history, archaeology and architecture of Byzantium.