Nicephori Gregorae Byzantina historia
Graece et Latine

This three-volume Greek/Latin edition of the History by Nicephorus Gregoras (c. 1295–1360) was published between 1829 and 1855.

Nicephorus Gregoras (Author), Ludwig Schopen (Edited by)

9781108043625, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

674 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.84 kg

This three-volume edition of the History by Nicephorus Gregoras (c. 1295–1360) was edited by Ludwig Schopen (Volumes 1 and 2, 1829–30) and Immanuel Bekker (Volume 3, 1855). The astronomer and historian, Gregpras, became the archivist of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (to whom he proposed a calendar reform similar to that adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582), and was involved in the fruitless negotiations of 1333 to unite the Greek and Latin Churches. The thirty-seven books of Gregoras' History overlap with the work by George Pachymeres, and continue the narrative to 1359. This period is also covered in the History by the ex-Emperor John Cantacuzene, and both these authors are also reissued in this series. The Latin introduction to Volume 1 includes a life and bibliography of Gregoras, and the Greek text (with Latin translation) begins with the capture of Constantinople by the Franks in 1204.

Praemonitum
Praefatio
Nicephori Gregorae vita. Nicephori Gregorae opera
Nicephori elogia
Hier. Wolfii praefatio
Nicephori Gregorae Byzantinae historiae libri I-XII.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]