Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle of 720

Title(s):
  • Chronicle of 720
Author:
Period covered:
668-720?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Hypothetical
Genre:
  • Chronicle (general)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
Based on the extensive parallels between Theophanes' Chronographia and Nicephorus' Breviarium for the period 668-720, Mango (1990: 15-16) inferred that they used the same source, which he labelled 'Chronicon ad a. 720 pertinens'. Howard-Johnston (2010: 306) and Treadgold (2011) maintain that it must have been the lost History ascribed to the patrician Trajan.
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Bibliography:
  • J. Howard-Johnston (2010) Witnesses to a world crisis: Historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century. Oxford.
  • C. Mango (1990) Nikephoros Patriarch of Constantinople: Short history (Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae, 13 = Dumbarton Oaks texts, 10). Dumbarton Oaks.
  • C. Mango, R. Scott (1997) The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern history A.D. 284-813. Oxford.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2011) ‘Trajan the Patrician, Nicephorus, and Theophanes’. In: Bibel, Byzanz und christlicher Orient: Festschrift für Stephen Gerö zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. D. Bumazhnov - E. Grypeou - T.B. Sailors - A. Toepel (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 187). Leuven: 589-621.