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History as Literature in Byzantium

Author : Ruth Macrides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351930648
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book History as Literature in Byzantium written by Ruth Macrides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history. Whatever can be called literary in these works has been considered as external and detachable from the facts. The 'classical tradition' inherited by Byzantine writers, the features that Byzantine authors imitated and absorbed, are regarded as standing in the way of understanding the true meaning of the text and, furthermore, of contaminating the reliability of the history. Chronicles, whose language and style are anything but classicizing, have been held in low esteem, for they are seen as providing a mere chronological exposition of events. This book presents a set of articles by an international cast of contributors, deriving from papers delivered at the 40th annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. They are concerned with historical and visual narratives that date from the sixth to the fourteenth century, and aim to show that literary analyses and the study of pictorial devices, far from being tangential to the study of historical texts, are preliminary to their further study, exposing the deeper structures and purposes of these texts.

History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th–10th Centuries

Author : Athanasios Markopoulos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939340
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th–10th Centuries written by Athanasios Markopoulos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty, and include four translated into English for this volume. They reflect both historical and prosopographical concerns, but Professor Markopoulos's principle interest is in the analysis of literary works and texts. This he combines with the examination of the ideological context of the period, as shaped in the reigns of Basil I and Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, and the investigation of gender issues and other approaches. The close analysis of the texts shows how, after the close of Iconoclasm, new styles of writing and new attitudes towards the writing of history emerged, for instance in the use of mythological themes, which exemplify the changing intellectual concerns of the time.

A History of Byzantine Literature, 650-850

Author : Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan
Publisher : National Hellenic Research Foundation Inst E Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of Byzantine Literature, 650-850 written by Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan and published by National Hellenic Research Foundation Inst E Research. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies on Byzantine History, Literature and Education

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Byzantine History, Literature and Education written by Robert Browning and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th-10th Centuries

Author : A. Markopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003418573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th-10th Centuries written by A. Markopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty, and include four translated into English for this volume. They reflect both historical and prosopographical concerns, but Professor Markopoulos's principle interest is in the analysis of literary works and texts. This he combines with the examination of the ideological context of the period, as shaped in the reigns of Basil I and Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, and the investigation of gender issues and other approaches. The close analysis of the texts shows how, after the close of Iconoclasm, new styles of writing and new attitudes towards the writing of history emerged, for instance in the use of mythological themes, which exemplify the changing intellectual concerns of the time.

(Re)writing History in Byzantium

Author : Panagiotis Manafis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000068757
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Re)writing History in Byzantium written by Panagiotis Manafis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planudea (thirteenth century). Three aspects of these texts are analysed in detail: their method of redaction, their literary structure, and their cultural and political function. Combining codicological, literary, and political analyses, this study contributes to a better understanding of the intertwining of knowledge and power, and suggests that these collections of historical excerpts should be seen as a Byzantine way of rewriting history. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429351020, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Byzantine Empire

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
ISBN 13 : 1979037205
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Empire written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to history books, the Roman Empire ended in 476 CE with the fall of Rome. But if you asked most people alive at that time, they would have pointed you to what they considered the continuation of the Roman Empire—the civilization we now call the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines, however, were more than just a remnant of Roman glory. At its geographical peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched out across the Mediterranean world. Culturally, the Byzantines both preserved the knowledge of the classical world, much of which was lost in the West, and added to it. Inside you will read about... ✓ A Divided Empire ✓ The Fall of the West ✓ Rising to Glory ✓ An Age of War ✓ The Destruction of Icons ✓ The House of Macedon ✓ The Comnenian Revival ✓ The Final Decline And much more! Shaped by its classical roots, its Christian religion, and the changing medieval world, the story of the Byzantine Empire is one of both glorious victories and terrible defeats, of a civilization that rose from the brink of destruction again and again, and of the development of a culture whose vestiges remain today.

Understanding Byzantium

Author : Takacs Sarolta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351758667
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Byzantium written by Takacs Sarolta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2003.Paul Speck's work is acknowledged to be of profound importance for the study of the history and culture of the Byzantine world. If at times controversial, it has proved highly influential in terms of the approaches to be taken to historical and literary sources. For many, however, it has remained largely inaccessible in its original German. To help overcome this, the selection of studies presented here have been specially translated into English. Taken together, they make a substantial contribution to a critical understanding of Byzantine writing, and to an interpretation of history free from prejudice and stereotyped conceptions. Their coverage extends from the foundation of Constantinople to current perceptions of Byzantine history, but they focus in particular on the period from the 6th to the 9th centuries - the 'Dark Ages' and the Byzantine renaissance - and the transformation of Byzantium that then took place.

Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing

Author : Leonora Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110866394X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing written by Leonora Neville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiography, sweeping, fast-paced 'chronicle' type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical texts, it distills the results of complex, multi-lingual, specialist scholarship into clear explanations of the basic information needed to approach each medieval Greek history. It provides a sound basis for further research on each text by describing what we know about the time of composition, content covered by the history, authorship, extant manuscripts, previous editions and translations, and basic bibliography. Even-handed explanations of scholarly debates give readers the information they need to assess controversies independently. A comprehensive introduction orients students and non-specialists to the traditions and methods of Byzantine historical writing. It will prove an invaluable timesaver for Byzantinists and an essential entry point for classicists, western medievalists, and students.

The Social History of Byzantium

Author : John Haldon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119344603
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Social History of Byzantium written by John Haldon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society. Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms

The Middle Byzantine Historians

Author : W. Treadgold
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137280867
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Byzantine Historians written by W. Treadgold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.

Byzantium

Author : John Haldon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956739
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium written by John Haldon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally the eastern half of the mighty Roman Empire, Byzantium grew to be one of the longest-surviving empires in world history, spanning nine centuries and three continents. It was a land of contrasts – from the glittering centre at Constantinople, to the rural majority, to the heartland of the Orthodox Church – and one surrounded by enemies: Persians, Arabs and Ottoman Turks to the east, Slavs and Bulgars to the north, Saracens and Normans to the west. Written by one of the world's leading experts on Byzantine history, Byzantium: A History tells the chequered story of a historical enigma, from its birth out of the ashes of Rome in the third century to its era-defining fall at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

Byzantium and Its Image

Author : Cyril A. Mango
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium and Its Image written by Cyril A. Mango and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Byzantine Empire

Author : George Finlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104178901
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book History of the Byzantine Empire written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Myriobiblos

Author : Theodora Antonopoulou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501623
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Myriobiblos written by Theodora Antonopoulou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New editions and analyses of texts and documents are included. The essays combine traditional scholarship with newer approaches, thus reflecting the current dynamics of the field.

Byzantium

Author : John F. Haldon
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantium written by John F. Haldon and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Byzantine World

Author : Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136727876
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Byzantine World written by Paul Stephenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas. Each chapter offers an innovative approach to a well-known topic or a diversion from a well-trodden path. Readers will be introduced to Byzantine women and children, men and eunuchs, emperors, patriarchs, aristocrats and slaves. They will explore churches and fortifications, monasteries and palaces, from Constantinople to Cyprus and Syria in the east, and to Apulia and Venice in the west. Secular and sacred art, profane and spiritual literature will be revealed to the reader, who will be encouraged to read, see, smell and touch. The worlds of Byzantine ceremonial and sanctity, liturgy and letters, Orthodoxy and heresy will be explored, by both leading and innovative international scholars. Ultimately, readers will find insights into the emergence of modern Byzantine studies and of popular Byzantine history that are informative, novel and unexpected, and that provide a thorough understanding of both.