Bøger af Madison) Neville

Provides essential guidance to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars of medieval and classical studies interested in Byzantine historical writing. It distils the results of complex, specialist, multilingual scholarship into an easily understood format, making it easier to approach the history of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean.

This first book-length study of Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire examines his use of classical Roman constructions of masculinity and honor. It will be important for the study of medieval gender, nobility, memory, historiography, rhetoric of warfare and political and military history of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.