Byzantinische Studien
Byzantine Studies

Author(s): Ferdinand Hirsch
Subject(s): Middle Ages
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Theodosios Melitenos: Julios Polydeuces; Theophanes; Symeon magister; Johannes Scylitzes; Constantinos Manasses; Michael Glycas;
Summary/Abstract: Since the author was not only concerned with discussing the, so to speak, external circumstances of the chronicles (scope, author, time of writing, dependence on other sources), but since he also made an effort above all to keep the original sources In order to recognize the character, the credibility and the value of their representations, he subjected the content of the same to a more special examination and he hopes to have determined a number of facts of Byzantine history more precisely and put them in a more correct light, especially the chronological ones Circumstances subjected to a more careful revision. The inconvenience that was unavoidable in the arrangement of the whole, namely that some points were dealt with several times in different places on the occasion of the individual authors who report on them, he hopes to have made up for by the index that follows at the end.

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