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See also:PACHYMERES, GEORGIUS (1242-c. 1310) , See also:Byzantine historian and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Nicaea, in See also:Bithynia, where his See also:father had taken See also:refuge after the See also:capture of See also:Constantinople by the Latins in 1204. On their See also:expulsion by See also:Michael See also:Palaeologus in 1261 Pachymeres settled in Constantinople, studied See also:law, entered the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and subsequently became See also:chief See also:advocate of the church (7rpo,r Ic&Koc) and chief See also:justice of the imperial See also:court (S&KatocOXa ). His See also:literary activity was considerable, his most important See also:work being a Byzantine See also:history in 13 books, in continuation of that of Georgius See also:Acropolita from 1261 (or rather 1255) to 1308, containing the history of the reigns of Michael and Andronicus Palaeologi. He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on hackneyed sophistical themes; of a Quadrivium (See also:Arithmetic, See also:Music, See also:Geometry, See also:Astronomy), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the See also:middle ages; a See also:general See also:sketch of Aristotelian See also:philosophy; a See also:paraphrase of the speeches and letters of See also:Dionysius Areopagita; poems, including an autobiography; and a description of the Augusteum, the See also:column erected by Justinian in the church of St See also:Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.
The History has been edited by I. See also:Bekker (1833) in the Corpus scriptorum hist. byzantinae, also in J. P. See also:Migne, Patrologia graeca. cxliii., cxliv.; for See also:editions of the See also:minor See also:works see C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).
End of Article: PACHYMERES, GEORGIUS (1242-c. 1310)
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