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History of Political Thought

• Catanzaro, Andrea
• CATANZARO, Andrea

In this essay I analyze the idea of internal ἀσφάλεια (safety) in the political thought of the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates (1150-55/1217 ca.), as it appears in his Chronikè Diéghesis. This historical work covers the period 1118-1206 and is a very significant source about the history of Byzantine Empire in the XIIth century and about its fall in 1204. Particularly I focus on three aspects of the idea of ἀσφάλεια in the “second class aristocracy”, as Paul Magdalino defined it in his works. According to Niketas’ thought, the lack of safety in the empire creates in the XIIth century certain preconditions of Constantinople’s fall in 1204.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία

safety, byzantium's fall, aristocracy, emperors, Byzantium

Αιώνες: 12ος - 12ος, 856:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/bz/article/view/3781, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.1045, Τα keywords δεν υπάρχουν στο πρωτότυπο τεκμήριο

• http://byzsym.org/index.php/bz/article/view/1045
• http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.1045