Contents:
Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Niketas Choniates: the Writer
Paul Magdalino:
Prophecy and Divination in the History
Anthony Kaldellis:
Paradox, Reversal and the Meaning of History
Stephanos Efthymiadis:
Greek and Biblical Exempla in the Service of an Artful Writer
Roderick Saxey:
The Homeric Metamorphoses of Andronikos I Komnenos
John Davis:
The History Metaphrased: Changing Readership in the Fourteenth Century
Luciano Bossina:
Niketas Choniates as a Theologian
Alicia Simpson:
Narrative Images of Medieval Constantinople
Titos Papamastorakis:
Interpreting the De Signis of Niketas Choniates
