| Nicephori Gregorae Byzantina Historia: Volume 3: Graece Et Latine Contributor(s): Gregoras, Nicephorus (Author), Bekker, Immanuel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139175483 ISBN-13: 9781139175487 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This three-volume edition, in Greek with Latin translation, 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. Volume 3 describes the overthrow of John VI, his withdrawal to a monastery, and the accession of John V Palaiologos, the son of Andronikos III. |