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	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Niketas Choniates was born in the early 1150's in the town of Chonai, in Frygia of Asia Minor.1 His family was probably comfortable and Niketas was sent with his brother Michael, to Constantinople to receive his education.2 He was trained in rhetoric, grammar, poetry, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, politics and law, qualifications required for administrative positions.
		Choniates asserts that disregarding nature and committing crimes to acquire more power is disgraceful for the Empire causing lack of trust among the people which leads to lack of unity and solidarity, which, in their turn, are responsible for the weakening of the Empire and for its being vulnerable to hostile forces.21
		Niketas thinks that he was "not wholly polished"22 meaning that he conducted the affairs of state in an unsystematic and often slovenly way.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v003.htm (4427 words)

	Ann Wharton Epstein - Popular And Aristocratic Cultural Trends in Byzance
		Choniates recorded that the first explanation for this innovation suggested by the people was the usurper's fear of the crowd.
		Choniates also wrote of a soldier who reproached Manuel Î, "Had you been a strong man as you claim to be, or had you had Î¿n your anaxyris, you would have smashed the gold-robbing Persians, routed them courageously and brought back their loot to the Rhomaioi" (186.73-75).
		Niketas Choniates' conservatism was reflected in his nostalgic description of a statue of Athena, on which, he wrote, the folds of the goddess's long robe covered everything that nature had, ordained be covered (Nik.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/epstein_trends.html (14263 words)

	Amazon.com: O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniates: Annals of Niketas Choniates (Byzantine Texts in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Choniates described a dramatic period -- the years 1120-1207, which includes the blood-soaked end of the Comneni dynasty and the catastrophic Fourth Crusade -- and he describes it in memorable and telling detail.
		Choniates was a lawyer and court official who served the Emperor Isaac II Angelus.
		Choniates generally at least makes an effort to be fair to everyone he describes, but he knew almost all of the key players described in the last 25 years his book covers, and his personal grudges occasionally show.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0814317642?v=glance (981 words)

	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 records in his history the heroic actions of the emperor himself in the battle.
		Choniates further criticizes the continuation and spread of the granting of pronoiai, parcels of land, the income from each of which supported a soldier.
	www.roman-emperors.org /mannycom.htm (8944 words)

	Baudolino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the confusion he meets Niketas Choniates and saves his life.
		Niketas is amazed with his language genius, speaking any language he has ever heard, and on the question- if he is not part of the crusade, who is he.
		His story begins in 1155, when Baudolino is sold to and adopted by the emperor Frederick I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baudolino (369 words)

	Baudolino -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the confusion he meets (additional info and facts about Niketas Choniates) Niketas Choniates and saves his life.
		Niketas is amazed with his language genius, speaking any language he ever heard, and on the question if he is not part of the crusade, Baudolino begins to recount his life story to Niketas.
		His story begins in 1155, when Baudolino is sold to and adopted by the emperor (Son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713)) Frederick I.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baudolino.htm (246 words)

	Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He should not be confused with the Byzantine emperor Isaac I Comnenus (ruled 1057–1059).
		The following account of his life is mainly based on the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates.
		Emperor Manuel made Isaac governor of Isauria and the town of Tarsus in present-day eastern Turkey, where he started a war with the Armenians and was imprisoned by them.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Comnenos (870 words)

	Lancette book08 Baudolino/Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Lancette Journal of the Arts
		Baudolino has just saved Niketas Choniates, a historian and former court orator, judge and chancellor of the basileus of Byzantium, from certain death by the marauding crusaders and their unruly followers.
		Niketas is not sure if Baudolino is telling the truth or weaving a fanciful tale to amuse him.
		Baudolino tells Niketas that in a country on the edge of the kingdom of Prester John (he never actually manages to reach the kingdom) among all the exotic animals he encountered there roamed llamas.
	www.lancetteer.com /book08.htm (2786 words)

	Banshee Studios :: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While he claims to be telling his story to pass the time and keep Niketas entertained, he's also looking for a purpose to his life and all the lies he's told.
		The last purpose that remained him was to avenge the death of his King, and it was returning from killing the murderer that he rescues Niketas.
		Niketas, however, refuses, claiming that it would require a greater liar than he could ever be to make any sense of it.
	www.bansheestudios.net /reviews/050103_baudolino.htm (440 words)

	Isaac Comnenos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Strangely enough, the Templars (the Phreri, as Niketas Choniates calls them) contributed as well.
		According to Niketas, he soon started to plunder Cyprus, raping women and defiling virgins, imposing overly cruelpunishments for crimes and stealing the possessions of the citizens.
		Isaac was given over to the Knights of St. John, whokept him imprisoned in Margat near Tripoli (Syria) till his death in 1194 or 1195.
	www.therfcc.org /isaac-comnenos-304024.html (800 words)

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		Niketas Choniates: Erlaeuterungen Zu Den Reden and Briefen Nebst Einer Biographie
		O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniates: Annals of Niketas Choniates (Byzantine Texts in Translation)
	www.ganoksin.com /jewelry-books/us/books/author/NIKETAS.htm (300 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Nicetas Choniates: The Sack of Constantinople (1204)
		Medieval Sourcebook: Nicetas Choniates: The Sack of Constantinople (1204)
		There were, however, a series of financial difficulties which enabled the Venetians, who had been hired as transportation providers, to divert the crusade to their own ends.
		The Byzantine historian Nicetas Choniates here gives an account of the sack of the city.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/choniates1.html (679 words)

	Baudolino -- Umberto Eco
		He rescues a high-ranking court official and historian, Niketas Choniates--a real person who did survive the sack of the city and subsequently wrote a history of Byzantium including the story of the sack.
		He then asks Niketas to listen to his own story, so that he can work out the meaning of it--if any.
		In alternating sections, we get the story of Baudolino's rescue of Niketas and his family and their escape from Constantinople, and Baudolino's lifetime of colorful adventures, including his lifelong fascination with the fabled kingdom of Prester John.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Carey/baudolino.htm (612 words)

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		Finding himself in Constantinople as it is being sacked, he rescues Niketas Choniates, a bumbling Byzantine historian, from the raiding soldiers.
		From his exploits as a student at university in Paris to the search he organizes with his intellectual, if slightly intoxicated, friends for the mythical "Prester John," ruler of a legendary eastern kingdom full of extraordinary creatures, the yarns Baudolino spins are nothing if not fanciful.
		The episodic nature of the novel, with the dialogue between Baudolino and Niketas at the beginning and end of most chapters interrupting the flow of the narrative, slows the story to a crawl.
	www.unb.ca /bruns/0304/25/entertainment/eco.html (362 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Baudolino: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He meet Niketas, a local historian, and starts to recount his life story, an improbable tale that takes him from the swamps of northern Italy to the court of the Emperor Frederick, to Paris, the orient and finally Constantinople itself.
		Then there is the possibility that the whole thing is a lie, told to Niketas by Baudolino, and none of it need have occurred at all.
		While spending time with Niketas Choniates, a high court official in Constantinople, as they flee together from the knights of the Fourth Crusade, Baudolino recounts the Candide-like story of his life from the time he met Frederick.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0436276038/1817 (1829 words)

	Eco - Review of "Baudolino"
		The year is 1204, the historian in question Niketas Choniates, the book The Sack of Constantinople, and the omissions all concern the exploits of a fellow named Baudolino.
		To begin with, the story is largely framed as a dialogue between Baudolino and Niketas Choniates.
		While the conversations between Baudolino and Master Niketas form the main text of the book, this very dialogue is itself narrated by an omniscient author unafraid to comment on the characters and their actions.
	www.themodernword.com /eco/review_baudolino.html (2132 words)

	Baudolino, English edition : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		After a brief foray into Baudolino's youthful attempts at autobiography, the novel opens in Constantinople in 1204, at the time of the Fourth Crusade.
		Baudolino has helped Niketas Choniates, the chancellor of the basileus of Byzantium, to flee the city.
		As the men make their way to safety Baudolino begins to recount, with numerous digressions and contradictions, his extraordinary life story.
	www.smartybrain.com /shopde/product/0436276038/Baudolino.html (260 words)

	IŞIN DEMİRKENT : Recueil des Historiens des Croisades, II: Byzantine Historians in the Comprehensive Compilation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Events pertaining to the Crusaders between the years 1137 and 1176 are based on the chronicles of Kinnamos and Nikheta Choniates.
		The narrative account by Choniates serves as the sole source for the years 1176-90.
		In the fourth chapter, after providing a summary of events for the years 1191-1202, the capture of Istanbul by the Latins and their pillaging and the establishment of Latin rule and the period that extends up to the death of the Latin emperor, Baldwin, is presented as reported by Choniates.
	www.ttk.gov.tr /ingilizce/yayinlar/belleten244d.htm (380 words)

	BYZANTIUM, VENICE AND THE FOURTH CRUSADE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The main eye-witness accounts are those of Geoffrey de Villehardoin, Robert of Clari and Niketas Choniates.
		Other historians, eager to apportion blame for what turned out to be a great crime, try to read between the lines of Villehardouin's text, the tragic and bitter account of Niketas Choniates, and the public pronouncements of the pope, to name a culprit.
		Niketas had no doubt who was the villain of the piece.
	www.southeastern.edu.gr /literature/crusade.htm (6406 words)

	Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past
		To many of the Christian population, even persons of imperial rank, these simulacra of bronze and marble were thought to be still inhabited by demons; they were thus to be dealt with cautiously.
		If Choniates is a reliable witness, Byzantines thought of themselves as Romans and to them Constantinople was still the new Rome.
		There is no evidence to indicate that Venetians thought any differently or that they had a strong sense of the separateness of pagan artifacts from those of the succeeding Christian period.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/brown-venice.html (8068 words)

	iChef.com Free Recipes - Online Cookbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hitherto, the only primary source that I had consulted for information on 1204 is that of Niketas Choniates (O City of Byzantium).
		His descriptions are often just as vivid as Choniates', and remarkably honost.
		However, as one might expect, he is unfair in his treatment of the Greeks.
	www.ichef.com /cookbookstore.cfm?SearchType=SearchByAuthor&SearchTerm=Robert%20of%20Clari (523 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Here be monsters
		Eco's new novel, set during the sack of Constantinople in 1204, derives from Boccaccio its form of stories told during a crisis, but has things in common also with the fabulating fantasy of Calvino's Imaginary Cities.
		It is the life-history of Baudolino, a self-confessed liar, told to the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates.
		It is fiction - Eco's, Baudolino's, tall-storytellers' of the ancient world - woven into the history of the fourth crusade.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,813728,00.html (1047 words)

	Christian vs. Christian in the Fourth Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Within months Pope Innocent III, the man who had first called for the Crusade, bitterly lamented the spilling of "blood on Christian swords that should have been used on pagans" and described the expedition as "an example of affliction and the works of Hell."
		Niketas Choniates, one of the inhabitants of the city, condemned the Crusaders' actions in understandably harsh terms: "In truth, they were exposed as frauds.
		Seeking to avenge the Holy Spirit they raged openly against Christ and sinned by overturning the Cross with the cross they bore on their backs, not even shuddering to trample on it for the sake of a little gold or silver." To the Crusaders themselves, the capture of Constantinople seemed an astonishing turn of events.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mhq/blfourthcrusade (2058 words)

	Baudolino, italien. Ausgabe : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And so our hero goes traveling from West to East, finally returning to his native village.
		Barbarossa has drowned in the meantime, and Baudolino tells most of his story to the Greek historian Niketas Choniates.
		Eco will have his fun, and that in various languages.
	www.smartybrain.com /shopde/product/8845251950/Baudolino.html (415 words)

	Books & Reading
		The book revolves around Baudolino's life, we start the story as he witnesses the sacking of Constaninople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade.
		While he rides through the city he rescues the Court historian Niketas Choniates and recounts his own story as he and the historians family hide out with friends of Baudolino's.
		Baudolino's story is fantastic enough, born as a peasant in northern Italy he happens to meet the Holy Roman Emperor Barbarossa.
	www.capn13.net /books/index.html (481 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Baudolino by Umberto Eco, reviewed by The New Republic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To wit: Baudolino has been in on every major event, factual and fictional, from the Twelfth-Century Renaissance to the Fourth Crusade of 1204, including the search for the Holy Grail, the embassy to Prester John, and the Three Princes of Serendip.
		We meet him in the blazing ruins of Constantinople, in the middle of its sack by Crusaders, and we listen, through the well-tended ears of the Byzantine courtier and chronicler Niketas Choniates (a historical person), to the flashback of his life, most of it spent in service to the peripatetic king Frederick Barbarossa.
		It may be useful to remember that the novel was first published in Italy in 2000, when no one suspected that the southern waterfront of Manhattan would shortly come to resemble the book's description of the palaces along the Golden Horn going up in smoke.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_11_14.html (2801 words)

	Re: Editions/Translations [was "1001 Nights"] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All the translations of the Greek myths give us the old stories of Scylla and Charybdis and others who populated the island of Sicily since time immemorial.
		Magoulias, in his translation of Niketas Choniates, tells us about the comely and deep-girded women that George of Antioch brought back to work in Roger's textile workshops.
		I would argue that academia needs to rethink what is apparently its stand that doing translation work is professional suicide.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/archives/mediev-l/melcher/2003/11/msg00127.html (273 words)

	Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Research Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The examining process for research degrees is carried out by the federal University of London, which appoints examiners and is responsible for the notification of results to candidates.
		Professor Judith Herrin Three early Christian tales of celibate marriage, Travelling to and within Egypt in Late Antiquity; Liturgy in Early Medieval Rome; The Writings of Niketas Choniates; The Byzantine Economy; The Ottoman Chronicle of Asikpasadaze
		Professor Roderick Beaton The construction of a genre: towards a poetics of the modern Greek short story (1880-1920); Epiphany in Modern Greek poetry: Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis and Embirikos; From authenticity to relativism: testimonial discourse in Modern Greek prose fiction (1924-1994)
	www.kcl.ac.uk /kis/schools/hums/byzmodgreek/students.html (497 words)

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