Format:
XXV, 324 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9781409412069
Series Statement:
Publications / Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 15
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
Aesthetics ; The aesthetics of history : from Theophanes to Eustathios
,
Audience ; Uncovering Byzantium's historiographical audience
,
Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates "translated" : the fourteenth-century Byzantine metaphrases
,
Narrator ; Psellos and "his emperors" : fact, fiction, and genre
,
"Listen, all of you, both Franks and Romans" : the narrator in the Chronicle of Morea
,
Story-telling ; From propaganda to history to literature : the Byzantine stories of Theodosius' apple and Marcian's eagles
,
Dream narratives in historical writing : making sense of history in Theophanes' Chronographia
,
The Venice Alexander romance : pictorial narrative and the art of telling stories
,
The classical tradition reinterpreted ; A historian and his tragic hero : a literary reading of Theophylact Simocatta's ecumenical history
,
Envy and Nemesis in the Vita Basilii and Leo the Deacon : literary mimesis or something more?
,
Sources reconfigured ; The story of the patriarch Constantine II of Constantinople in Theophanes and George the Monk : transformations of a narrative
,
Engaging the Byzantine past : strategies of visualizing history in Sicily and Bulgaria
,
The Synopsis chronike and hagiography : the presentation of Constantine the Great
,
Structure and themes ; Procopius' Persian War : a thematic and literary analysis
,
La chronique de Malalas entre littérature et philosophie
,
Rhetoric and history : the case of Niketas Choniates
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Byzantinisches Reich
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
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