Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Citation and Transliteration
Abbreviations and Short Title
Introduction
1: The Author, his Life, and Works
2: The Composition and Transmission of the History
3: Historical Narrative and Imperial Biography
4: Sources, Models, and Concepts
Conclusion
Appendix I: The Manuscripts of the History
Appendix II: The Events of the History
Appendix III: Niketas on the Latins, the Turks, and the Vlachs-Bulgars
Genealogical tables:
Table 1: Selected Genealogy of the Komnenoi
Table 2: Selected Genealogy of the Angeloi
Maps:
Map 1: The Balkans in the Twelfth Century
Map 2: Asia Minor in the Twelfth Century
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Alicia Simpson is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. Her research interests lie in the political, social, and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire in the tenth through twelfth centuries.

Reviews

Simpson not only shows that Nicetas was a great historian but shows the methods by which he became a great historian, beginning with an initial version of his history that resembled other fine Byzantine histories and then turning it into a masterpiece that surpassed nearly all of them. Her book should bring his history more of the attention it deserves ... [an] accomplished first book.
*Warren Treadgold, Saint Louis University, The American Historical Review*