Readership: Scholars and students of Byzantine history; of the medieval history of Bulgaria, the Turks, Anatolia, and the Balkans; of medieval European political and military history, including the Crusades.
Ruth Macrides, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
"This books is the 'definitive Akropolites' a biographic, work-analytic and historical achievement of which the author is to be thoroughly congratulated" - Günter Prinzing, The Anglo-Hellenic Review
"Macrides...important work, characterizes by noteworthy precision in the translation and by artful use of the English language...Her intimate knowledge of the text is constantly in evidence...impressive work...a very valuable tool..." - John S. Langdon
"the most impressive translation of a Byzantine historian yet to appear in English" - Chrstopher Wright, Reviews in History
"This is a work of mature scholarship, stitching together insights gained and tested over three decades of engagement with Akropolites' work" - Crusades (2009)
"[not just] a translation, but as full a study of the History and its author as we are likely to see in a while ... [Macrides] has also moved the bar up quite a few notches for this sort of study." - Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"While Macrides translation is not the first translation of Akropolites into a modern language, it certainly is the most punctilious one. And it will undoubtedly be very useful to all those who are interested in the history and the history writing of the Byzantine thirteenth century." - Liliana Simeonova, Etudes Balkaniques
Introduction The thirteenth century in historical writing The man and his work Promotions and titles Chronology of Akropolites' life The History Akropolites and later writers Other writings Studies Translation and Commentary
