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# The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series)

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    The Chronicle of Theophanes
  

*by B***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 31, 2012*

This is the paperback edition of the translation of the Chronicle of Theophanes by Harry Turtledove, published by the university of Pennsylvania press. The translation covers the years AD 602 to 814. The Greek chronicle actually starts with Diocletian, about AD285, a date often used as an era by Eastern Christian sources. However Theophanes only becomes a primary source after 602, because all of the sources he used after that date have not survived. Theophanes is the fullest source I am aware of upon the tyrrany of Phokas, who is up there with Caligula, Nero and Commodus in the rankings of imperial crazies. He preserves what I think is a Christian idealised account of the great campaigns of Heraclius, and he gives an account of the early conquests of Islam attributing Christian disaster to imperial heresy, and there is some implication of blaming the Jews and heretic Nestorians for the problems of the empire. he is almost the only source for the first, little recorded siege of Constantinoplie by the forces of the Khalif Muawiyah in the years 673 onwards.He is a fuller source for the second siege in 717, and the Iconoclast/Iconodule religious conflict of the Eighth century, of the reign of the empress Irene, and the Bulgar victory of Krum, and the defeat and death of the emperor Nikephorus in 811.The introduction tells us what we know about the chronicler, indicating that his chronicle survives because of the close links between his family and the Macedonian dynasty. It describes some of the Chronological problems arrising from the complex chronological structure of the chronicle.Theophanes uses Anno Mundi dates for every year, and then enters the regnal and episcopal year for the Pope, the bishop of Constantinople, the reigning emperor and the eastern potentate - Persian up to c640, Muslim after that date. The AM date used is 5,500 BC = 1BC. There is a small error of about 1 year between these two sources, (probably arising from using AD1 as the base year? Theophanes also uses AD dates for some entries, and oddly these are always 7/8 yerars too early, not just in the early entries, but also in the last entries, made in Theophanes own life. Hence for Theophanes Michael 1 is proclaimed emperor in AD804, and not AD811/812, the true date. How could Theophanes not know an AD date for an event ten years before the time he was writing? If they were inserted later, why would the ammender of the text not ensure his corrections were accurate to at least a year or so? Harry Turtledove gives a brief summary of the sources and construction of the chronicle, and a set of tables on the post holders whose dates are used to buttress the chronicle by Theophanes.

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