Byzantine Narrative

Byzantine Narrative

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  • Author: John Burke
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 900434487X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 650

"Byzantine Narrative: Papers in Honour of Roger Scott"--"Copyright"--"Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Roger Scott" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "KEYNOTE PAPERS" -- "Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction" -- "Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses" -- "NARRATIVE IN HISTORIANS, CHRONICLES & FICTION" -- "To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium" -- "Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading" -- "Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor" -- "The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia" -- "War and Peace in the Alexiad" -- "Moralising History: the Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes" -- "The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum" -- "The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment" -- "The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return" -- "From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity" -- "How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative" -- "Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople" -- "A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans" -- "NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART" -- "The Narration of Christ' s Passion in Early Christian Art" -- "Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt" -- "The Column of Arcadius: Retlections of a Roman Narrative Tradition" -- "Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia" -- "Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviška in Prizren" -- "Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration


History of the Byzantine State

History of the Byzantine State

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  • Author: Georgije Ostrogorski
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 9780813511986
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 736

Succinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors


The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

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  • Author: Stratis Papaioannou
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199351767
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 785

In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography

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  • Author: Stephanos Efthymiadis
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351393278
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 559

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.


Imagining the Byzantine Past

Imagining the Byzantine Past

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  • Author: Elena N. Boeck
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107085810
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 337

The first comparative, cross-cultural study of medieval illustrated histories that engages in a direct, confrontational dialogue with Byzantine historical memory.


Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

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  • Author: Clare Teresa M. Shawcross
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108418414
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 745

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.


A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204

A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004363734
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 500

The Byzantine Culture of War offers a critical approach to the study of military organisation and warfare as fundamental aspects of the East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.


Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography

Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004685758
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses.


History as Literature in Byzantium

History as Literature in Byzantium

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  • Author: R. J. Macrides
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 9781409412069
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

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.


The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature

The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature

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  • Author: Aglae Pizzone
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1614519617
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 403

Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.