Overview: Explores several key Byzantine texts as witness literature, considering the positionality of authors to the events they describe.Considers works by John Kaminiates, Eustathios of Thessaloniki, Niketas.This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ .Capture of Thessaloniki. (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s .Capture of Thessaloniki .(1186), and Niketas Choniates’ .History
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