- John Kaminiates
John Kaminiates (Greek: _el. Ιωάννης Καμινιάτης, fl.
tenth century ) was a Greek resident ofThessaloniki when the city, then one of the largest in theByzantine Empire , was besieged and sacked by aSaracen force led byLeo of Tripoli in904 . His account of the city's plunder, "The capture of Thessalaloniki", (Greek: _el. Εις την άλωσιν της Θεσσαλονίκης, "Eis ten alosin tes Thessalonikes") survives in four manuscripts; though of these, none were written before the fourteenth century, causing some concern over the text's authenticity. [Kazhdan 1978]Name
John Kaminiates has alternatively been transliterated John Kaminatos, Ioannis Kaminiatis, and sometimes appears in the Latinized forms Ioannis Caminiatae, Joannes Cameniata.
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References
"English"
*Kaminiates, John "The capture of Thessaloniki" (D. Frendo, A. Fotiou, and G.Böhlig, trans.) Byzantina Australiensia, 12. Perth: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2000. ISBN 1876503009.
*Kazhdan, Alexander "Some Questions Addressed to the Scholars, who Believe in the Authenticity of Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessalonika" Byzantinische Zeitschrift 71. 1978. p. 301-314. ISSN [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1537961 0007-7704] .
*Tougher, Shaun "The Reign of Leo VI (886-912): Politics and People" BRILL, 1997. ISBN 9004097775."Foreign"
*Kaminiates, John "Eis ten alosin tes Thessalonikes / De Expugnatione Thessalonicae" (Böhlig, Gertrude, ed.) Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973. issn|0589-8048External links
* [http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/thessaloniki.htm A portion of the translated text online]
* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byz/editionex.html The Manuscript Editing Process] - An interesting look at how the four surviving manuscripts are used to create a modern scholarly Greek edition.
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