John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Reception by Theofili Kampianaki;

Author:Theofili Kampianaki; [Kampianaki, Theofili]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192688583
Publisher: OxfordUP
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

John Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Reception. Theofili Kampianaki, Oxford University Press. © Theofili Kampianaki 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192865106.003.0006

1 Magdalino, ‘Kaiserkritik’, 343–4.

2 Xiphilinos himself mentions in his text that the Epitome was composed during the reign of Michael Doukas: Xiphilinos, Epitome of Dio, 526.8–10 (chapter 87). For Xiphilinos’ treatment of Cassius Dio, see Millar, Study, 2–3, 195–203.

3 The proem of the text is preceded by a book epigram in which Attaleiates reports that the work was commissioned by the emperor Michael Doukas and was produced in the third year of his reign, in 1073: see Attaleiates, Πόνημα νομικὸν, 411.4–8. See also Krallis, Politics, xxi–iv; Wolska-Conus, ‘L’école’, 97–101.

4 Bernard, Poetry, 37–8, 127–8, 216–17, 243 and 247.

5 For an extensive analysis of the text, see Wolska-Conus, ‘L’école’, 79–97.

6 See, in particular, Ljubarskij, ‘Some Notes’.

7 Magdalino, ‘Kaiserkritik’, 343. See also Angold, History, 65.

8 Macrides and Magdalino, ‘Fourth Kingdom’, 121–2.

9 Markopoulos, ‘Antiquarianism’.

10 Kaldellis, ‘Equivalence’, 21; Kaldellis, Hellenism, 62; Krallis, ‘ “Democratic” Action’.

11 For the latest edition of the Novel, see Novella constitutio saec. XI medii, ed. by A. Salač (Prague 1954). The Novel has come down to us in a codex unicus, the Vat. gr. 676 (ff. 280v–292v), which dates to the late eleventh century and contains John Mauropous’ works: see D. Bianconi, ‘ “Piccolo assaggio di abbondante fragranza”. Giovanni Mauropode e il Vat. gr. 676’, JÖB, 61 (2011), 89–103.

12 S. Troiannos, ‘Η Νεαρά Κωνσταντίνου του Μονομάχου: ἐπὶ τῇ ἀναδείξει καὶ προβολῇ τοῦ διδασκάλου τῶν νόμων’, ByzSym, 22 (2012), 243–63, at 262.

13 M. Jeffreys, ‘Michael Psellos and the Monastery’, in The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities, ed. by M. Jeffreys and M. Lauxtermann (Oxford, 2017), 42–58 (at 43) and 443–4 (‘Summaries’, excursus 17.3 and excursus 17.4); M. T. Fögen, ‘Modell und Mythos. Die Rechtsfakultäten von Konstantinopel, Neapel und Bologna im Mittelalter’, Rechtshistorisches Journal, 15 (1996), 181–204, at 185.

14 Kazhdan and Wharton-Epstein, Change, 122.

15 See Wolska-Conus, ‘L’école’, 13–31.

16 La Meditatio de nudis pactis, ed. by H. Monnier and G. Plato (Paris, 1915; repr. 1974). See also B. Stolte, ‘The Byzantine Law of Obligations’, in Obligations in Roman Law: Past, Present and Future, ed. by T. McGinn (Ann Arbor, 2012), 320–33, at 327–31; Wolska-Conus, ‘L’école’, 37–53.

17 Markopoulos, ‘Antiquarianism’, 291–2; N. Van der Wal, ‘Problèmes linguistiques recontrés par les jurists byzantins’, in Non Nova, Sed Nove: mélanges de civilization médiévale, ed. by M. Gosman and J. Van Os (Groningen, 1984), 279–83.

18 See p. 16 of this book.

19 Wolska-Conus, ‘L’école’, 79. As numerous of Psellos’ didactic and introductory works, the text is written in political verse and comprises 1406 verses: M. Jeffreys, ‘The Nature and Origins of Political Verse’, DOP, 28 (1974), 141–95, at 164–6.

20 Psellos, Synopsis Legum, 124.7.

21 For example, see ibid., 127.95–128.108, 128.112–14.

22 See G. Weiss, Oströmische Beamte im Spiegel des Schriften des Michael Psellos (Munich, 1973), 284–302, which contains five edited treatises.

23 Cresci, ‘Exempla’, 131–2.

24 Psellos, Chronography, 31.7–8 (Βοοκ 3, chapter 2); Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus, trans. into English by E. Sewter (Harmondsworth, 1979), 39.

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