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See also:ACROPOLITA (AKROPOLITES), See also:GEORGE (1217–1282) , See also:Byzantine historian and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Constantinople. At an See also:early See also:age he was sent by his See also:father to the See also:court of See also:John See also:Ducas Batatzes (Vatatzes), See also:emperor of See also:Nicaea, by whom and by his successors (See also:Theodorus II. See also:Lascaris and See also:Michael VIII. See also:Palaeologus) he was entrusted with important See also:state See also:missions. The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of " See also:great See also:logothete " or See also:chancellor was bestowed upon him in 1244. As See also:commander in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in 1257 against Michael See also:Angelus, See also:despot of See also:Epirus, he showed little military capacity. He was captuFed and kept for two years in See also:prison, from which he was released by Michael Palaeologus. Acropolita's most important See also:political task was that of effecting a reconciliation between the See also:Greek and Latin Churches, to which he had been formerly opposed. In 1273 he was sent to See also:Pope See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory X., and in the following See also:year, at the See also:council of See also:Lyons, in the emperor's name he recognized the spiritual supremacy of See also:Rome. In 1282 he was sent on an See also:embassy to John IL, emperor of See also:Trebizond, and died in the same year soon after his return. His See also:historical See also:work (Xpovts')1vyypacaii, Annales) embraces the See also:period from the See also:capture of Constantinople by the Latins (1204) to its recovery by Michael Palaeologus (1261), thus forming a continuation of the work of Nicetas See also:Acominatus. It is valuable as written by a contemporary, whose See also:official position as great logothete, military commander and confidential See also:ambassador afforded him frequent opportunities of observing the course of events.
Acropolita is considered a trustworthy authority as far as the statement of facts is concerned, and he is easy to under-stand, although he exhibits See also:special carelessness in the construction of his sentences. He was also the author of several shorter See also:works, amongst them being a funeral oration on John Batatzes, an See also:epitaph on his wife Eirene and a See also:panegyric of Theodorus II. Lascaris of Nicaea. While a prisoner at Epirus he wrote two See also:treatises on the procession of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost ('EKirbpevots, Processio Spiritus Sancti).
Editio princeps by See also:Leo Allatius (1651), with the editor's famous See also:treatise De Georgics eorumque Seriptis; See also:editions in the See also:Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Hist. Byz., by I. See also:Bekker (1836), and See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxl.; in the Teubner See also:series by A. Heisenberg (1903), the second See also:volume of which contains a full See also:life, with bibliography; see also C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteralur (1897).
End of Article: ACROPOLITA (AKROPOLITES), GEORGE (1217–1282)
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