Re Writing History In Byzantium

Author : Panagiotis Manafis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000068757

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(Re)writing History in Byzantium by Panagiotis Manafis Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438453

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Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products by Anonim Pdf

This volume represents the first discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles treating hagiographical rewriting from various angles. The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts from late antiquity to late Byzantium.

Author : Raymond Van Dam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556041534017

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Rome and Constantinople by Raymond Van Dam Pdf

Imperial Rome and Christian Constantinople were both astonishingly large cities with over-sized appetites that served as potent symbols of the Roman Empire and its rulers. Esteemed historian Raymond Van Dam draws upon a wide array of evidence to reveal a deep interdependence on imperial ideology and economy as he elucidates the parallel workaday realities and lofty images in their stories. Tracing the arc of empire from the Rome of Augustus to Justinian's Constantinople, he masterfully shows how the changing political structures, ideologies, and historical narratives of Old and New Rome always remained rooted in the bedrock of the ancient Mediterranean's economic and demographic realities. The transformations in the Late Roman Empire, brought about by the rise of the military and the church, required a rewriting of the master narrative of history and signaled changes in economic systems. Just as Old Rome had provided a stage set for the performance of Republican emperorship, New Rome was configured for the celebration of Christian rule. As it came to pass, a city with too much history was outshone by a city with no history. Provided with the urban amenities and an imagined history appropriate to its elevated status, Constantinople could thus resonate as the new imperial capital, while Rome, on the other hand, was reinvented as the papal city.

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141928593

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A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich Pdf

With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire.

Author : Ruth Macrides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351930642

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History as Literature in Byzantium by Ruth Macrides Pdf

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.

Author : Sean McLachlan
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0781810337

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Byzantium by Sean McLachlan Pdf

Long after Rome fell to the Germanic tribes, its culture lived on in Constantinople, the glittering capital of the Byzantine Empire. For more than 1000 yeras (AD 330-1453) Byzantium was one of the most advanced and complex civilisations the world had ever seen. As the Mediterranean outlet for the silk route, its trade networks stretched from Scandinavia to Sri Lanka; its artists created sombre icons and brilliant gold mosaics; its scholarship served as a vital cultural bridge between the Muslim East and the Catholic West; and it fostered the Orthodox Christianity that is the faith of millions today. This book shows the innovative art that inspired French kings and Arab emirs. It includes a gazetteer of historic Byzantine sites and monuments that travellers can visit today in greece, Italty, Turkey and the Middle East. A chronology of Byzantine history and a list of emperors complete this ideal resource for the student, traveller or generally curious reader.

Author : Leonora Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107039988

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Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing by Leonora Neville Pdf

Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.

Author : Takacs Sarolta,Paul Speck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351758673

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Understanding Byzantium by Takacs Sarolta,Paul Speck Pdf

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.

Author : Piotr Ł Grotowski
Publisher : Prus24.pl
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 9788392839927

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Towards Rewriting? by Piotr Ł Grotowski Pdf

Author : Liz James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444320025

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A Companion to Byzantium by Liz James Pdf

Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companionto Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world fromits inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries ofByzantine society Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming thefield of Byzantine studies Emphasizes Byzantium's social and cultural history, as well asits material culture Explores traditional topics and themes through freshperspectives

Author : Stephen R. Lawhead
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061841880

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Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead Pdf

Born to rule Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom. Thus begins an expedition by sea and over land, as Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an intimate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. And finally this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny.

Author : Anne Alwis,Martin Hinterberger,Elisabeth Schiffer
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 2503593445

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Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature by Anne Alwis,Martin Hinterberger,Elisabeth Schiffer Pdf

Throughout the centuries Byzantium's ambitious authors were conscious of the significance of literary registers for the reception of their texts. They deliberately made use of stylistic elements or refrained from using certain features in order to reach their target audience. There are certain groups of texts dating from various periods on which these stylistic elements can be tracked precisely by comparison of two or even more versions with their model text. Such examples of rewriting can be found particularly within genres with a broader audience appeal, namely hagiography and historiography. It is in both genres that we encounter metaphrastic processes, in terms of stylistic elaboration and in terms of stylistic simplification.0As well as stylistic reshaping, metaphrasis may also encompass the addition or removal of literary and/or thematic aspects. All these processes signify intent as well as authorial interpretation. Frequently, the ideological orientation of a text is refurbished through rewriting. Teasing out these strands for exploration helps to supply a potential wealth of information on the author (if known), cultural (social, religious, historical) context, and creative ability, as well as levels of education and literacy.

Author : Lars Brownworth
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307407962

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Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth Pdf

Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy. For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.

Author : András Németh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423632

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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past by András Németh Pdf

Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

Author : Jesse W. Torgerson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516854

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The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes by Jesse W. Torgerson Pdf

The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. This interdisciplinary study draws on new manuscript evidence to finally animate the Chronographia’s promise to show attentive readers the present meaning of the past. Begun by one of the Roman emperor’s most trusted and powerful officials in order to justify a failed revolt, the project became a shockingly ambitious re-writing of time itself—a synthesis of contemporary history, philosophy, and religious practice into a politicized retelling of the human story. Even through radical upheavals of the Byzantine political landscape, the Chronographia’s unique historical vision again and again compelled new readers to chase after the elusive Ends of Time.