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Michael Attaliates
Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates (, ; – 1080) was a Byzantine Greek chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the second half of the eleventh century. He was a younger contemporary (possibly even a student) of Michael Psellos and likely an older colleague of John Skylitzes, the two other Byzantine historians of the eleventh century whose work survives. Life and work Michael Attaleiates was probably a native of Attaleia (now Antalya, in Turkey) and moved to Constantinople some time between, approximately, 1030 and 1040 to pursue studies in law. During years of service in the empire's judicial system he built a small private fortune. Prominence on the judge's bench also brought him to the attention of a number of emperors who rewarded him with some of the highest honours available to civil servants (''patrikios'' and '' anthypatos''). In 1072, Attaleiates compiled for Emperor Michael VII a synopsis of law, known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attaleia
Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Taurus Mountains. The urban population of the city is 1,335,002 (Konyaalti, Kepez, Muratpasa), with a metropolitan population of 2,722,103.2011 Census (Büyükşehir belediyeleri ve bağlı belediyelerin nüfusları) – 2011 The city was formerly known as Attalia and was founded in around 200 BC by King |
Alice-Mary Talbot
Alice-Mary Talbot (also Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot; born May 16, 1939) is an American Byzantinist. She is director of Byzantine studies emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her particular expertise is the social context of Byzantine religious practices, including hagiography, monasticism, and gender studies. Much of her work has focused on the edition and translation of Byzantine texts. Education and career Talbot received a B.A. in Classics from Radcliffe College. She completed her M.A. and PhD (1970) in Byzantine and Ottoman History at Columbia University. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''The correspondence of Athanasius, patriarch of Constantinople (1289–1293; 1303–1309) with the emperor Andronicus II'' (two volumes). Her PhD supervisor was Ihor Ševčenko. Talbot taught at several colleges in Ohio, as well as being a junior fellow of Byzantine studies (1966–1968) at Dumbarton Oaks. She was a senior fellow of Byzantine studies (1978–1983) at D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Krallis
Dimitris Krallis () is a Greek historian who is Professor of Humanities and Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. Biography Dimitris Krallis was born in Athens, Greece where he attended Athens College and the University of Athens. At the University of Athens he studied political theory and inspired by his professors of history, decided to apply for a graduate degree in Byzantine Studies. He attended the University of Oxford where he studied Byzantine social and political history. After an interruption of four years dedicated to military service and to teaching at the American College of Greece in Athens, he moved to the US and the University of Michigan for his doctorate. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty at Simon Fraser University where he is Professor of Humanities and Director at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies. Books and Book-length translations * ''Serving Byzantium's Emper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Kaldellis
Anthony Kaldellis ( ; born 29 November 1971) is a Greek-American historian and Byzantinist who is a professor of classics at the University of Chicago. He is a specialist in Greek historiography, Plato, and Byzantine studies. As the author of monographs on classical antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, Kaldellis has called into question a commonly accepted view of Byzantium as an absolutist world; he considers instead the Byzantine Empire a "bottom-up monarchy", where the common people have a good share in government, since emperors impose laws by acknowledging their customs and demands. Biography Anthony Kaldellis was born on 29 November 1971 in Athens, Greece. He received two bachelor's degrees in history and philosophy (1994) then a Ph.D. (2001) in history from the University of Michigan. After gaining his Ph.D., Kaldellis has served as assistant professor (2001–2006), associate professor (2006–2007), full-time professor (2007–2022) and chair (2015–2022) of the departmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symeon Seth
Symeon Seth (c. 1035 – c. 1110)Antonie Pietrobelli (2016)Qui est Syméon Seth ?Le Projet Syméon Seth. was a Byzantine scientist, translator, and official under Emperor Michael VII Doukas. He is often said to have been Jewish, but there is no evidence for this. Either of Jewish background, or Jacobite, or Nestorian, or a Rūm, Symeon was definitely a non-Muslim Syrian. He wrote four original works in Greek and translated one from Arabic,Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos"Galen's Reception in Byzantium: Symeon Seth and his Refutation of Galenic Theories on Human Physiology" ''Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies'' 55 (2015): 431–469, at 436–442. and offered early proofs that the Earth was round. Life Symeon was originally from Antioch. His second name, gives as Seth () or Sethi (), may be a patronymic (indicating his father was named Seth) but is more probably a family name. The manuscripts of his works describe him as a philosopher and give him the titles ''ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiphilinoi
Xiphilinus () was a Byzantine family name. The family was from Trebizond and was considered of lowly origin. In the 11th and 12th centuries members were found mainly in the church and the bureaucracy in Constantinople and Thessaloniki. They were intellectuals rather than soldiers. They declined in importance after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. Known Xiphilini include: *Bardas Xiphilinos (11th century), '' strategetes'' of Thessaloniki. *John Xiphilinos (died 1075), judge, became Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople *Michael Xiphilinos, brother of John VIII *Constantine Xiphilinos (), '' droungarios tes viglas'' * John Xiphilinos the Younger, epitomator of Cassius Dio *John Xiphilinos (), '' vestarches'' *Nicholas Xiphilinos (), '' protovestes'' *Niketas Xiphilinos (/9), '' apographeus'' of Boleron *Euthymios Xiphilinos (), monk and copyist *Niketas Xiphilinos (), judge and quaestor *Donatos Xiphilinos (), judge *George Xiphilinos (died 1198), became Patriarch George II of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mauropous
John Mauropous (, ''Iōánnēs Maurópous'', lit. "John Blackfoot") was an Eastern Roman poet, hymnographer, and author of letters and orations, who lived in the 11th century. Life John Mauropous was born in Paphlagonia around 1000. He came to Constantinople, and quickly gained a reputation as a teacher. Among his students, Michael Psellos was to be the most important. It was also Psellos who introduced him to the emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (1042-1055). For a couple of years, Mauropous belonged to the favoured circle of poets and scholars that Constantine gathered around him, he functioned as a court orator. But for an unknown reason, these friends suddenly fell from favour around the year 1050, and presumably on this occasion,This is disputed by Kazhdan in "Some Problems in the Biography of John Mauropous", ''JÖB'' 43 (1993) p. 87-111, where he dates Mauropous' appointment in the 1070s. But Kazhdan's arguments are convincingly refuted by A. Karpozilos in "The Biograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Keroularios
Michael I of Constantinople (''Cerularius'' or ''Keroularios''; ; 1000 – 21 January 1059) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1043 to 1059. His disputes with Pope Leo IX over church practices in the 11th century played a role in the events that led to the Great Schism in 1054. Background Michael Cerularius was born in Constantinople around 1000 and joined the Church at a young age. Schism Michael I quarreled with Pope Leo IX over church practices in which the Roman Church differed from Constantinople, particularly the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist. Dissenting opinions were also exchanged over other theological and cultural issues, ranging from the issue of papal supremacy in the Church to the ''Filioque'' clause and other disagreements between the patriarchates. In 1054, Pope Leo IX sent a letter to Michael I, citing a large portion of the '' Donation of Constantine'' believing it genuine: :"The first pope who used it he Donationin an off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kazhdan
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (; 3 September 1922 – 29 May 1997) was a Soviet and American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume ''Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'', a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 entries. Early life and education Born in Moscow, Kazhdan was educated at the Pedagogical Institute of Ufa and the University of Moscow, where he studied with the historian of medieval England, Eugene Kosminsky.Bryer, Anthony.Obituary: Alexander Kazhdan" ''The Independent''. 5 June 1997. Retrieved August 28, 2010. A post-war Soviet initiative to revive Russian-language Byzantine studies led Kazhdan to write a dissertation on the agrarian history of the late Byzantine empire (published in 1952 as ''Agrarnye otnosheniya v Vizantii XIII-XIV vv.'') Despite a growing reputation in his field, anti-Semitic prejudice in the Joseph Stalin-era Soviet academy forced Kazhdan to accept a series of positions as a provincial teacher (in Ivanovo, 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic ( ) was the era of Ancient Rome, classical Roman civilisation beginning with Overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean world. Roman society at the time was primarily a cultural mix of Latins (Italic tribe), Latin and Etruscan civilization, Etruscan societies, as well as of Sabine, Oscan, and Greek cultural elements, which is especially visible in the Ancient Roman religion and List of Roman deities, its pantheon. Its political organisation developed at around the same time as direct democracy in Ancient Greece, with collective and annual magistracies, overseen by Roman Senate, a senate. There were annual elections, but the republican system was an elective olig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komnenian Era
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Komnenos dynasty for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to about 1185. The ''Komnenian'' (also spelled ''Comnenian'') period comprises the reigns of five emperors, Alexios I, John II, Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I. It was a period of sustained, though ultimately incomplete, restoration of the military, territorial, economic and political position of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium under the Komnenoi played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land, while also exerting enormous cultural and political influence in Europe, the Near East, and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. The Komnenian emperors, particularly John and Manuel, exerted great influence over the Crusader states of Outremer, whilst Alexios I played a key role in the course of the First Crusade, which he helped bring about. Moreover, it was during the Komnenian period that contact between Byzantium and the 'Latin' Christian West, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
