I presented my work to the Royal Academy in MunichĪnd received from it the Zographos-prize in its public Text, I had opportunities of becoming familiar with the Rome and in the island of Corfu, while preparing my The preparation of this edition has occupied a large Grammatical forms which Greek had assumed in the Words however will furnish a conspectus of some of the Side the scope of the volumes of this Series. I have gathered abundant materials for this purpose butĪ chapter devoted exclusively to grammar would lie out. Grammar, based on the language of the Chronicle, and Study of the Greek language as it was spoken in the 13thĪnd 14th centuries. One, can, I hope, be considered as a contribution to the A carefully prepared edition, such as the present Morea was published rendered it unsuitable for such pur. Studies, while the conditions under which the Chronicle of Have furnished ample materials for grammatical and literary Valuable collections of literary documents. Of Neohellenic philology by means of his numerous and Particularly indebted to Emile Legrand for the promotion Sathas, Lampros and of late by Hesseling, and we are ‘were begun by Mavrophrydis, carried on by Wagner, In the last thirty years many of the most valu-Īble texts relating to popular Greek literature of the Most important and extensive compositions in popular Monument of the Frankish period and one of the earliest, This edition the Chronicle is not treated as an indifferentĭocument subservient only to the history of political events,īut with all the deference due to it as the chief literary Main reason for undertaking an edition on a new basis. Of medieval language and literature, and this has been the Seen hereafter, has done very little to further the knowledge The Franks in the Peloponnese, can also be read with profitīy all who wish to get a general view of the subject.įor the purpose of supplying historical material a newĮdition of the Chronicle was not perhaps a pressing need.īut in publishing the different texts, Buchon, as will be Rately written History of Athens in the Middle Ages, in whichĪll the events of the Frankish period are related as they couldīe observed from Athens as the centre. In his History of Greece, and by Gregorovius in his elabo. A readable ac-Ĭount, based on Hopf, is given of this period by Hertzberg Refers to Du Cange’s Histoire de Pempire de Constantinople sous les empereursīaldwin 1). Materials which Hopf, had he lived to throw the vast Still the literary legacy of Hopf?, which hasīeen made accessible to scholars, may contain new The Chronicle of Morea nor the documents referring to theįrankish conquest had been published This new andĬurious field for historiography was first explored byīuchon and Hopf, and they developed it to such anĮxtent, that perhaps little of moment still remains to beĭiscovered. Have had, no exact knowledge, since, in his time, neither It furnishes us with anĪccurate picture of a period of which Gibbon had, and could Indispensable for the comprehension of the history, customs,Īnd language of medieval Greece. and a complete history of the emperorīaldwin 1). Nachlass Karl Hopfs much material has been left by Hopf (registers, Rohricht in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 1v, 1895, p. Refers to Du Cange’s Histoire de lempire de Constantinople sous les empereursĢ See R. But unfortunatelyįor medieval history the fulfilment of this desire has beenġ See Gibbon’s brief notice relating to Athens in Chapter LXII, where he Wiateriais wnicn Hopt, had he lived to throw the vastĪmount of detail given in his work into literary form,Ĭould have utilized and perhaps he might have exhausted Lographos prize of the Royal Academy, Munich.” “This edition of the Chronicle of Morea has received the Indispensable for the comprehension of the history. Time commented on and translated by Buchon, is HE Chronicle of Morea, which was edited for the first Full text of " The chronicle of Morea = To chronikon tou Moreos : a history in political verse, relating to the establishment of feudalism in Greece by the Franks in the thirteenth century"
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