니케타스 코니아테스의 『연대기』 - 고중세 비잔티움의 역사서술법과 문화적 정체성 - = The Chronicle of Niketas Choniates: Writing History and Cultural Identity in Byzantium in the High Middle Ages

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Niketas Choniates (1155∼1217) is a historian who represents Byzantium’s intellectual and cultural height during the High Medieval Period. This study analyzes his life and Byzantium’s cultural identity embed throughout his most well-known work: the Chronicle (Χρονικὴ διήγησις). He finds Byzantium’s loss of religious purity and inhabited uniqueness as the cause of its fall in 1204. He argues that Byzantium, which at the time had cast away its traditional merits via practicing superstitious activities and being short-sighted, evidently lost to the Latin Catholic West that had still kept its old values (though may they seem barbarian in the Byzantine perspective). Unfortunately, no focused study has been completed on Choniates or his works in Korea. Due to the limited scope of this paper, this study focuses on analyzing the life and historical background of Niketas Choniates, his anecdote on Byzantium’s cultural identity reflected through his comparison between the reign of Ioannes II Komnenos and Manuel I, and the Byzantine perspective on the anti-West propaganda and the events surrounding 1204.