{"product_id":"the-chronicle-of-constantine-manasses-9781786941510","title":"The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Linda Yuretich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Byzantine Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book translates the mid-12th-century \u003ci\u003eSynopsis Chronike\u003c\/i\u003e by Constantine Manasses which was widely circulated. It extends to 1081, marking the end of Nikephoros Botaneiates' reign and the accession of Alexios I Komnenos. Commissioned by the Sevastokratorissa Irene, whose sponsorship likely determined its format in verse and subject matter, the chronicle begins with a dedicatory epigram and introduction lauding Irene for her largesse and love of learning. Manasses proceeds to relate a pastoral view of creation, biblical stories, a history of the peoples of the East, Alexander the Great's conquests and the subsequent Hellenistic empires. He then provides a non-Homeric view of the Trojan War and continues with Rome through the Principate and early empire until the reigns of Constantine I in the East and Theodosios II in the West. Manasses then focuses on the New Rome with a colorful treatment of its individual emperors. \u003cbr\u003eThe chronicle attracted the attention of Emperor John Alexander for whom the Middle Bulgarian Synodal or Moscow manuscript was translated. This is the mid-14th-century copy taken into account here with deviations from the Greek contained in the footnotes. The so-called Middle Bulgarian Short Chronicle is interspersed in the appropriate places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46470543343767,"sku":"9781786941510","price":19049.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781786941510.jpg?v=1766239734","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-chronicle-of-constantine-manasses-9781786941510","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}