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A Translation and Historical Commentary of
Georpe Akropotes History
by
Ruth
Juliana
Macrides
King's College
Submitted for
the
degree of Ph.D
'1
I
ABSTRACT
A Translation and Historical Commentary of Ceorge Akropolites' History
Ruth Juliana }Aacrides
Qeorge Akropolites' History, the major contemporary Creek
source for the period of the Latin occupation of Constantinople
(120z+.-1261),
has been available to historians in the reliable
edition by A. Heisenberg for three quarters of a century. As
the text does not preerit problems, the work has been used free-
ly. However, no systematic study of the History as a whole has
been undertaken. This has led, at times, to an improper under-
words. But, even more serious, the
standing of the
lack of a study has stood in the way of f orinu].ating ideas about
Byzantine historiography. Questions such as, the sources availa-
ble to the author, sources the author made use of, varying methods
of narration in different authors, reasons for discrepancies in
accounts, must be raised and answered for each author. The coinmen-
tary attempts to answer these questions for Akrôpolites' History.
Since Akropolites is, for many events, our sole source, his
account cannot be checked against others for verification, How-
ever, in the many cases where it is possible to compare his narra-
tive with that of other sources, it is found to be admirably re-
liable and precise. Apart from drawing on his personal knowledge
of events he observed or participated in during his lifetime, Akro-
polites makes use of written and oral sources. He carefully gives
credit to other when his source is an eyewitness. However, sur-
prisingly, his written sources for events before his lifetime, are
not to be found in the work of his predecessor, a History which
overlaps his by a few years, but in material which does not survive
but would seem to have been availab]e to him as an administrative
official at court. Not only did his career make him privy to such
•information, but it also affected the attitudes expressed in his
History. Therefore, knowledge of Akropolite& family background. and
cursus honorum is fundamental to an understanding of the History.
The Introduction provides a description of the Akropolites family,
established in Constantinople at least from the tenth century, and
the stages in Akropolites' career.
2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations and Short Titles
INTRODUCT ION
The Family
Prosoporapy
Career
Minor Works
!
Historr
A
Note
on the
Translation
and Commentary
3-11
12-13
I Li—I
8
19-25
26-1i-2
3-48
19-65
66
67-190
TRANSLATION
CMENTARY
BIBLI.RAH1Y
Plate
191
27-447
448
3
Abbreviations and Short Titles
1. Periodicals
B
1313
131?
BS
BZ
DO?
EEBS
EO
J'OB
JBG
yzantion
Byzntinobularica
T3yzantinische Porsehungen
Byzantinoslavica
Byzantinische Zeitschr±ft
Dumbarton Oaks Papers
'Eitc'pt
'FfrcLl,pcCcL
Bueav'rv63v
Z'xouô65v
Echos d'Orient
Jalirbuch der 8sterreichischen Byzantinistik
Jahrbuch der österreichischen byzantinischen
Ge sell schaft
1'To'
OCP
vovi.v
• Orientalia Christiana Periodica
Revue des e'tudes byzantines
REC
S BAN
vv
2. Primary Sources
Revue des tudes grecques
Spisanie na btilgarskata akadem na Naukite
Viz ant
iskii Vremnienik
Unless otherwise specified Byzantine histori.a are cited by page and line
from the Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (CsHB).
Akropolites, History
Anna Komnena
Apokaukos
C.eorgii Acropolitae Opera, ed. A. Heisenberg,
I, Leipzig,
1903.
Alexiade, ed. and
trans. B. Leib, Paris,
1937,
3
vols.
V. Vasilievsky,
'Epirotica saeculi XIII',
VV
3 (1896), 233-299.

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