Michael Angold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1226375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Angold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Angold |
| SIGNATURE | ANGOLD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Norman Sicilian court as a centre for the translation of Classical texts
The translations into Latin from Greek and Arabic of works by Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Diogenes Laertes, and others are very well known. They were mostly done at the Norman Sicilian court in the early years of William I’s reign (1154–1166) and carried out by or under the supervision of Henry Aristippus, who was a royal official. Not much progress has been made over the question of the Norman Sicilian Translations since Charles Homer Haskins bro…
A Papal Version of the Fourth Crusade
The Preliminaries of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
The reaction of the Orthodox Church to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) arguably set a pattern that would persist until the end of Byzantium. While members of the hierarchy were mostly opposed to accepting invitations to attend the council, the Emperor Theodore i Laskaris saw it as an opportunity to open up a dialogue with the papacy in the hope of deriving some political advantage. This episode reveals that negotiations over the Union of Church…
Mesarites as a source
I am guessing, but I suspect that Bryer's first introduction to Nicholas Mesarites was like mine through a very short article by A. A. Vasiliev, entitled ‘Mesarites as a source’, 1 which was a footnote to his much more substantial ‘The foundation of the Empire of Trebizond’, 2 which dominated the field for years. Vasiliev was responding to a criticism by Franz Dölger, who suggested that Vasiliev might have benefited from a perusal of the works of…
Sacred Plunder
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Anthony Kaldellis. Ethnography after Antiquity
Journal Article Anthony Kaldellis. Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature. Get access Anthony Kaldellis. Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature. (Empire and After.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. x, 275. $75.00. Michael Angold Michael Angold Emeritus University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
Memoirs, confessions and apologies
Two issues are addressed here: the status of Byzantine autobiography and the state of Byzantine literary culture in its last years. Autobiographical information was mostly a device used at all levels of Byzantine literature for immediacy, emphasis and to suggest personal involvement. It continued to function in this way in the last years of Byzantium, but there was also a degree of experimentation, as it extended its range into satire and comedy …
Empires of Faith
Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261
Tales from Another Byzantium
Never overlook ill-considered trifles seems to be the lesson of this book. Scholars have been too ready to dismiss Medieval Greek apocrypha out of hand. Jane Baun proves triumphantly how wrong they were and demonstrates that the Apocalypse of the Theotokos and the Apocalypse of Anastasia, which are the focus of her study, provide a key for unlocking some of the secrets of the Byzantine mentality, which (the educated élite excepted) has largely re…
Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330
Until the appearance of this excellent book, it was not clear how much of a desideratum a study of this kind was. No longer will it be so easy to dismiss Byzantine imperial ideology as a series of clichés repeated over the centuries by a succession of court orators, nor to suggest that political thought was hardly a Byzantine strength. This study is part of an ongoing re-evaluation of Byzantine rhetoric. It used to be a source of embarrassment to…
Eastern Christianity
Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium
Journal Article Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond Get access Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond. By ANTONY EASTMOND (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004; pp. xxi + 208. £50). Michael Angold Michael Angold University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Is…
The road to 1204
Michael Angold has shown that the collapse of Greek resistance to the crusading army has not yet been fully explained by historians (Journal of Medieval History, 25, 3 (1999) 257–78). The chronicles of Villehardouin and Clari are an additional, important source, written by eyewitnesses. They provide first-hand evidence of the morale of the army, its sense of mission and the problems which it faced. Henri de Valenciennes provides a similar, first-…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.423 Published: 01 April 1998
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.149 Published: 01 February 1996
Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081–1261
In this major study the theme of 'church and society' provides a means of examining the condition of the Byzantine Empire at an important period of its history, up to and well beyond the fall of Constantinople in 1204. Of all the Byzantine dynasties, the Comneni came closest to realising the Caesaro-papist ideal. However, Comnenian control over the Orthodox church was both deceptive and damaging: deceptive because the church's institutional stren…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1237–1238, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1237 Published: 01 November 1995
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.154 Published: 01 February 1995
History, Politics, and Society
History, Politics, and Society
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 426–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.426 Published: 01 April 1992
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVI, July 1990, Pages 718-a–718, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVI.718-a Published: 01 July 1990
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCX, January 1989, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCX.167 Published: 01 January 1989
Greeks and Latins after 1204
Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330
Until the appearance of this excellent book, it was not clear how much of a desideratum a study of this kind was. No longer will it be so easy to dismiss Byzantine imperial ideology as a series of clichés repeated over the centuries by a succession of court orators, nor to suggest that political thought was hardly a Byzantine strength. This study is part of an ongoing re-evaluation of Byzantine rhetoric. It used to be a source of embarrassment to…
The road to 1204
Michael Angold has shown that the collapse of Greek resistance to the crusading army has not yet been fully explained by historians (Journal of Medieval History, 25, 3 (1999) 257–78). The chronicles of Villehardouin and Clari are an additional, important source, written by eyewitnesses. They provide first-hand evidence of the morale of the army, its sense of mission and the problems which it faced. Henri de Valenciennes provides a similar, first-…
Mesarites as a source
I am guessing, but I suspect that Bryer's first introduction to Nicholas Mesarites was like mine through a very short article by A. A. Vasiliev, entitled ‘Mesarites as a source’, 1 which was a footnote to his much more substantial ‘The foundation of the Empire of Trebizond’, 2 which dominated the field for years. Vasiliev was responding to a criticism by Franz Dölger, who suggested that Vasiliev might have benefited from a perusal of the works of…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLV, October 1972, Pages 858–859, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLV.858 Published: 01 October 1972
Byzantine ‘Nationalism’ and the Nicaean Empire
The fall of Constantinople on the night of 13 April 1204 to the Venetians and the soldiers of the fourth crusade is taken as the crucial turning point of the history of the later Byzantine Empire. For many the final period of Byzantine history is nothing but the pathetic survival of a state built on the memories of its former greatness. This is in many ways far too gloomy a picture. Constantinople was to be recovered by the Byzantines in 1261; an…
The Date of the Synopsis Minor of the Basilics
It comes as no surprise that the Synopsis Minor of the Basilics has been more or less neglected by modern scholars, for it is hardly an impressive monument of Byzantine jurisprudence. It is little more than a hack compilation of excerpts taken for the most part from the Synopsis Major of the Basilics and the Ponema Iuris of the eleventh-century historian Michael Attaleiates. Its main interest lies in the inclusion of some of Manuel I Komnenos’s (…
Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVIII, Issue CCCLXXXVII, April 1983, Pages 403-b–403, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVIII.CCCLXXXVII.403-b Published: 01 April 1983
Short Notices
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCVIII, January 1986, Page 212, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCVIII.212 Published: 01 January 1986
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue CCCCII, January 1987, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.CCCCII.181 Published: 01 January 1987
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access M. J. ANGOLD M. J. ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 403, April 1987, Pages 468–469, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.403.468 Published: 01 April 1987
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCX, January 1989, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCX.167 Published: 01 January 1989
Greeks and Latins after 1204
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVI, July 1990, Pages 718-a–718, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVI.718-a Published: 01 July 1990
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 426–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.426 Published: 01 April 1992
History, Politics, and Society
History, Politics, and Society
Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081–1261
In this major study the theme of 'church and society' provides a means of examining the condition of the Byzantine Empire at an important period of its history, up to and well beyond the fall of Constantinople in 1204. Of all the Byzantine dynasties, the Comneni came closest to realising the Caesaro-papist ideal. However, Comnenian control over the Orthodox church was both deceptive and damaging: deceptive because the church's institutional stren…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1237–1238, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1237 Published: 01 November 1995
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.154 Published: 01 February 1995
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.149 Published: 01 February 1996
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL ANGOLD MICHAEL ANGOLD University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.423 Published: 01 April 1998
The road to 1204
Michael Angold has shown that the collapse of Greek resistance to the crusading army has not yet been fully explained by historians (Journal of Medieval History, 25, 3 (1999) 257–78). The chronicles of Villehardouin and Clari are an additional, important source, written by eyewitnesses. They provide first-hand evidence of the morale of the army, its sense of mission and the problems which it faced. Henri de Valenciennes provides a similar, first-…
Eastern Christianity
Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium
Journal Article Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond Get access Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond. By ANTONY EASTMOND (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004; pp. xxi + 208. £50). Michael Angold Michael Angold University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Is…
Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330
Until the appearance of this excellent book, it was not clear how much of a desideratum a study of this kind was. No longer will it be so easy to dismiss Byzantine imperial ideology as a series of clichés repeated over the centuries by a succession of court orators, nor to suggest that political thought was hardly a Byzantine strength. This study is part of an ongoing re-evaluation of Byzantine rhetoric. It used to be a source of embarrassment to…
Tales from Another Byzantium
Never overlook ill-considered trifles seems to be the lesson of this book. Scholars have been too ready to dismiss Medieval Greek apocrypha out of hand. Jane Baun proves triumphantly how wrong they were and demonstrates that the Apocalypse of the Theotokos and the Apocalypse of Anastasia, which are the focus of her study, provide a key for unlocking some of the secrets of the Byzantine mentality, which (the educated élite excepted) has largely re…
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