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 Battle of Pelagonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Still, Michael and his troops deserted during the night and fled to the Nicaean side; according to George Pachymeres this is because Michael's illegitimate son John quarrelled with William.
The duke at the time was Ulrich III, but he ruled for many years after 1259, and was probably not at the battle; the writer of the Chronicle may have invented a fictitious duke as a counterbalance to William.
Greek sources, aside from George Pachymeres, include Georgius Acropolita, Gregoras Nicephorus, and George Sphranztes.
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 Byzantine Literature
A cleric, George the Pisidian, wrote long narrative poems on the wars of the emperor Heraclius (610-641), as well as a poem on the six days of the creation, in iambic trimeters (12-syllable lines, consisting in principle of three pairs of iambic feet, each of a short syllable followed by a long).
The Chronographia of John Malalas in the 6th century and the Paschal Chronicle (Chronicon Paschale) in the 7th century were succeeded by those of Patriarch Nicephorus at the end of the 8th century, Theophanes the Confessor in the early 9th century, and George the Monk in the late 9th century.
Such chronicles continued to be written in later centuries, sometimes with critical and literary pretensions, as in the case of John Zonaras, or in vaguely romanticized form in verse, as in the case of Constantine Manasses.
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 Culture in Late Byzantine Period
All of them (three scholars and one emperor) lived close to the imperial court of Constantinople and were therefore in a position to follow developments at first hand.
His disciple and successor, George Pachymeres, did not see eye to eye with him.
John Kantakouzenos, who reigned as emperor from 1347 to 1354 was, on the contrary, a supporter of hesychasm and was responsible for the civil war.
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 MS 260
5v blank Prooemium of George Pachymeres on Dionysius the Areopagite; PG 3.107-16.
94v-99v blank Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres; PG 3.119-339, for both Dionysius and Pachymeres.
127r-137v blank Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres; text of Pachymeres, PG 3.607-73; text of Dionysius, PG 3.607-48.
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George Pachymeres moved from Nicaea, where he was born, to Constantinople, sometime after 1261.
It was there that he first became known for his superior classical scholarship thanks to which he was appointed to the high public offices of protekdikos and dikaiophylax.
His most important work was the historical Chronike Syngraphe, where his main concern was, as he said, to reveal the truth.
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Glyceria, a martyr of the second century, venerated on 13 May, was born there.
Wailly, 382, 568); it was captured and pillaged in 1206 by Joannitza, King of the Bulgarians (George Acropolita, "Hist.", XIII).
It is still mentioned in Nicephoras (Ancedota of Boissonade, V, 279), in John Cantacuzenus (Hist., I, 38; II, 13; III, 67), in George Pachymeres (ad ann.
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 Economics in Late Byzantine Period
Personalities such as Sygrares and George Petritzes, or monasteries such as that of the
Members of the imperial family were also favoured by the institution of pronoia, to such a degree that in certain cases they were in possession of whole areas of land with their revenues.
Thus, for instance, according to the historian George Pachymeres,
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 George Pachymeres --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Upon the fall in 1262 of the Latin Eastern Empire and the return of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, Pachymeres went to Constantinople and was ordained to the…
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 George Pachymeres -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
George Pachymeres -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
On the expulsion of the Crusaders by (Click link for more info and facts about Michael Palaeologus) Michael Palaeologus, Pachymeres settled in Constantinople, studied law, entered the church, and subsequently became chief advocate of the church and chief justice of the imperial court.
The History has been edited by I Bekker (1835) in the Corpus scriptorum hist.
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 Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age grec et latin: Index
Terezis, George Pachymeres's Commentary on Boethius's De Differentiis Topicis 169-185 S. Ebbesen, George Pachymeres and the Topics 187-215 Ch.
Jahrhundert zur Ars poetica des Horaz 294-296 N. Haastrup, Three Halle Manuscripts from Loegum Abbey 297-308 B. Schartau, A checklist of the settings of George and John Plousiadenos in the Kalophonic Sticherarion Sinai gr.
George Amargianakis, An Analysis of Stichera in the Deuteros Modes.
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 Culture in Late Byzantine Period
In the next period, George Pachymeres paraphrased the works of Aristotle, adding his own commentaries - as did the
in a work that was widely disseminated and was known as the "Philosophy of Pachymeres", while
Theodore Metochites, Nikephoros Gregoras, George Gemistos or Plethon and George Gennadios Scholarios.
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