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History as literature in Byzantium : papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 2007
Title
History as literature in Byzantium : papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 2007 / edited by Ruth Macrides.
ISBN
9781409412069 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409412067 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
Physical Description
xxv, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2011
Series
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies : Publications ; 15
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Aesthetics
The aesthetics of history : from Theophanes to Eustathios / Stratis Papaioannou
Audience
Uncovering Byzantium's historiographical audience / Brian Croke
Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates "translated" : the fourteenth-century Byzantine metaphrases / John Davis
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
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
The classical tradition reinterpreted
A historian and his tragic hero : a literary reading of Theophylact Simocatta's ecumenical history / Stephanos Efthymiades
Envy and Nemesis in the Vita Basilii and Leo the Deacon : literary mimesis or something more? / Martin Hinterberger
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
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.
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