History as Literature in Byzantium

Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007
Herausgeber: Macrides, Ruth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although perceived since the 16th century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. This book, devoted to literary interpretations of Byzantine historical writing and analyses of pictorial narratives, illustrates how analyses of texts and images from the 6th to the 14th century work hand in hand with an evaluation of the work as a document of historical value.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9781409412069
• ISBN-10: 1409412067
• Artikelnr.: 44794331

Autorenporträt

Ruth Macrides is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword; Editor's preface; Section I Aesthetics: The aesthetics
of history from Theophanes to Eustathios, Stratis Papaioannou. Section II
Audience: Uncovering Byzantium's historiographical audience, Brian Croke;
Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates 'translated': the 14th-century Byzantine
metaphrases, John Davis. Section III Narrator: Psellos and 'his emperors':
fact, fiction and genre, Michael Jeffreys; 'Listen, all of you, both Franks
and Romans'; the narrator in the Chronicle of Morea, Teresa Shawcross.
Section IV Story-Telling: From propaganda to history to literature: the
Byzantine stories of Theodosius' apple and Marcian's eagles, Roger Scott;
Dream narratives in historical writing: making sense of history in
Theophanes' Chronographia, George T. Calofonos; The Venice Alexander
Romance: pictorial narrative and the art of telling stories, Nicolette S.
Trahoulia. Section V The Classical Tradition Reinterpreted: A historian and
his tragic hero; a literary reading of Theophylact Simokatta's Ecumenical
History, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Envy and nemesis in the Vita Basilii and
Leo the Deacon: literary mimesis or something more?, Martin Hinterberger.
Section VI Sources Reconfigured: The story of the patriarch Constantine II
of Constantinople in Theophanes and George the Monk: transformations of a
narrative, Dmitry Afinogenov; Engaging the Byzantine past: strategies of
visualizing history in Sicily and Bulgaria, Elena N. Boeck; The Synopsis
Chronike and hagiography: the presentation of Constantine the Great,
Konstantinos Zafeiris. Section VII Structure and Themes: Procopius' Persian
War: a thematic and literary analysis, Anthony Kaldellis; La chronique de
Malalas entre littérature et philosophie, Paolo Odorico; Rhetoric and
history: the case of Niketas Choniates, Athanasios Angelou; Indexes.