History as literature in Byzantium : papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Surrey, England Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2010
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| Series: | Society for the promotion of byzantine studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Aesthetics
- The aesthetics of history : from Theophanes to Eustathios / Stratis Papaioannou
- Audience
- Uncovering Byzantiumʹs 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 Theodosiusʹ apple and Marcianʹs eagles / Roger Scott
- Dream narratives in historical writing : making sense of history in Theophanesʹ 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 Simocattaʹs 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
- Procopiusʹ Persian War : a thematic and literary analysis / Anthony Kaldellis
- La chronique de Malalas entre litte?rature et philosophie / Paolo Odorico
- Rhetoric and history : the case of Niketas Choniates / Athanasios Angelou.