Nicephori Gregorae Byzantina Historia: Graece Et Latine Contributor(s): Gregoras, Nicephorus (Author), Schopen, Ludwig (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108043623 ISBN-13: 9781108043625 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $71.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Published: February 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Latin - History | Europe - General |
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History |
Physical Information: 1.48" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.86 lbs) 674 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This three-volume edition of the History by Nicephorus Gregoras (c. 1295-1360) was edited by Ludwig Schopen (Volumes 1 and 2, 1829-30) and Immanuel Bekker (Volume 3, 1855). The astronomer and historian, Gregpras, became the archivist of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (to whom he proposed a calendar reform similar to that adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582), and was involved in the fruitless negotiations of 1333 to unite the Greek and Latin Churches. The thirty-seven books of Gregoras' History overlap with the work by George Pachymeres, and continue the narrative to 1359. This period is also covered in the History by the ex-Emperor John Cantacuzene, and both these authors are also reissued in this series. The Latin introduction to Volume 1 includes a life and bibliography of Gregoras, and the Greek text (with Latin translation) begins with the capture of Constantinople by the Franks in 1204. |