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  Encyclopedia: List of Byzantine Empire-related topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.08   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Choniates is introduced with a helpful and sympathetic account of his life and years at Athens.
Choniates writes that he lives among a barbarized people clad in rags and insufficiently nourished, among whom no trace of ancient learning or spark of ancient spirit remains to be perceived (39ff.).
Michael Psellos, for instance, writing in the 10th C, compares the decline of Athens to his own psychological decline in old age.
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 Roman Emperors DIR Manuel I Comnenus
Choniates and Cinnamus claim that the Byzantines gave up count of those whom they ferried[[4]], but a panegyric of Eustathius of Thessalonica mentions that the "number of the ten thousands is the highest number of the decade"[[5]], which is suggestive of a figure of 9000 or 10 000.
Choniates further criticizes the continuation and spread of the granting of pronoiai, parcels of land, the income from each of which supported a soldier.
Choniates laments how fashionable a practice it had become in Manuel's reign to forsake the land or one's trade and become enlisted in the army.
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Choniates, Michael: Writer and metropolitan of Athens (1182-1204), brother of Niketas Choniates.
He was an opponent of the civilian aristocracy, which he criticised for its attitude towards the provinces, and wrote exceptionally vivid and original works.
Choniates, Niketas (1155/7-1217): Government official, historian and theologian, younger brother of Michael Choniates.
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 Michael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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 Ann Wharton Epstein - Popular And Aristocratic Cultural Trends in Byzance
Choniates also wrote of a soldier who reproached Manuel Ι, "Had you been a strong man as you claim to be, or had you had οn your anaxyris, you would have smashed the gold-robbing Persians, routed them courageously and brought back their loot to the Rhomaioi" (186.73-75).
Choniates noted that he set a fashion of sleeping during the day and entertaining during the night and, further, that he cleaned his teeth and replaced those that fell out with new ones made of resin (244.51-60.
Michael Choniates ridiculed one such place: it was nο more than a hut heated by an open hearth; the door could not be properly closed, so that the bathers suffered from smoke and heat and at the same time shivered from the draft.
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His to Alexis III Angelus on the abuses of Byzantine administration poetical lament over the degeneracy of Athens the monodes on his brother Nicetas and Eustathius archbishop of Thessalonica deserve special mention.
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 Roman Emperors DIR Alexius II Comnenus
We are told something of the condition of the provinces by the metropolitan bishop of Athens Michael Choniates.
Nicetas Choniates says that it was the sacrilege of the use of the Great Church as a fortress which was the immediate cause of the sack of Constantinople by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204
Choniates accuses Andronicus of poisoning the kaisarissa Maria Porphyrogenita and her husband the kaisar Renier, despite their previous support of him[[17]].
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 Nicetas Choniates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Nicetas Choniates sometimes called Acominatus was an historian like his brother Michael whom he accompanied from their birthplace to Constantinople.
He initially took up politics as a and held several appointments under the Angelus (amongst them that of Grand Logothete or chancellor) and was governor of theme of Philippopolis at a critical period.
Choniates' book chronicles the waning years of Byzantine power, from the Commenian dynasty to the fall of Constantinople to the latin armies of the Fourth Crusade.
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 Michael
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Michael Psellus, the third of the five of that name mentioned by Allatius, was born of a consular and patrician family in Constantinople about 1020.
When Michael Ducas was deposed (1078), he was deprived of his professorship, and so he retired to a monastery, where he died.
The funeral orations by Euthymius of Neopatria and Michael Choniates in Migne, Patrol.
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 Byzantine Studies Conference: 1989 Abstracts
The Archangel Michael is portrayed in a niche with Euthymius, Antony and Damian in the surrounding soffit arch.
Michael of Chonai was most closely identified with pilgrimage sites where miraculous cures were effected by healing waters.
This is illustrated by the increase in donor portraits and invocations in the rock-carved churches of this period.
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 Michael Cera - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Michael Cera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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 Roman Emperors DIR Basil II
Michael VIII Palaeologus translated Basil's relics from their original burial place at the Hebdomon (see below) to his own family monastery near Selymbria.
The second strand in the evidence is Michael Psellus's pen portrait of the emperor which appears to suggest that after defeating Sclerus and Phocas Basil crushed the greater families of the empire and took sole control of imperial governance.
In this sense there is much to be said for Michael Psellus' allegations in the Chronographia that the decline of Byzantium stemmed from the irresponsibility of the successors of the iron emperor.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Michael and Nicetas Akominatos
1206); also known as Choniates, from their native city, Chonia (the Colossae of St. Paul).
While studying at Constantinople by their father's wish, Michael acted as tutor to his younger brother Nicetas.
Michael became a priest; Nicetas studied history and jurisprudence, in addition to theology, and rose to high honors in the imperial service.
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 Michael Choniates - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Acominatus, Michael on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
(ekŏmĬnā´tes), or Michael Choniates, c.1140-1220, Byzantine writer and metropolitan of Athens.
Acominatus' speeches, poems, and letters give much information about medieval Athens, which he, a classicist, found barbarous and degenerate.
His brother, Nicetas Choniates, c.1150-c.1213, wrote an important history of the Byzantine Empire covering the period 1180 to 1206.
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 Byzantijnse literatuur - Wikipedia
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It would thus appear that the Suda was compiled in the latter part of the (Click link for more info and facts about 10th century) 10th century.
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