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See also:CINNAMUS [KINNAMOS], See also:JOHN , See also:Byzantine historian, flourished in the second See also:half of the 12th See also:century. He was imperial secretary (probably in this See also:case a See also:post connected with the military ad-ministration) to See also:Manuel I. See also:Comnenus (1143-1180), whom he accompanied on his See also:campaigns in See also:Europe and See also:Asia See also:Minor. He appears to have outlived Andronicus I., who died in 1185. Cinnamus was the author of a See also:history of the See also:period 11t8-1176, which thus continues the Alexiad of See also:Anna Comnena, and em-braces the reigns of John II. and Manuel I., down to the unsuccessful See also:campaign of the latter against the See also:Turks, which ended with the disastrous See also:battle of Myriokephalon and the rout of the Byzantine See also:army. Cinnamus was probably an See also:eye-See also:witness of the events of the last ten years which he describes. The See also:work breaks off abruptly; originally it no doubt went down to the See also:death of Manuel, and there are indications that, even in its See also:present See also:form, it is an abridgment. The See also:text is in a very corrupt See also:state. The author's See also:hero is Manuel; he is strongly impressed with the superiority of the See also:East to the See also:West, and is a determined opponent of the pretensions of the papacy. But he cannot be reproached with undue See also:bias; he writes with the
straightforwardness of a soldier, and is not ashamed on occasion to confess his See also:ignorance. The See also:matter is well arranged, the See also:style (modelled on that of See also:Xenophon) See also:simple, and on the whole See also:free from the usual florid bombast of the Byzantine writers.
Editio princeps, C. Tollius (1652) ; in See also:Bonn, Corpus Scriptorum Hist. Byz., by A. See also:Meineke (1836), with Du Cange's valuable notes; See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxxxiii. ; see also C. See also:Neumann, Griechische Geschichtsschreiber See also:im 12. Jahrhundert (1888) ; H. von Kap-Herr, See also:Die abendlandische Politik Kaiser Manuels (1881); C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).
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