Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century
A. Historiography, chronicles and the sixth century. Byzantine chronicles ; Byzantium in the sixth century and the beginning of Byzantine history writing ; The classical tradition in Byzantine historiography ; Text and context in Byzantine historiography ; Towards a new history of Byzantine literatu...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate,
c 2012
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Variorum collected studies series
1004 |
| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Variorum collected studies series |
| Schlagworte: | Johannes Theophanes Byzantinisches Reich Geschichtsschreibung Geschichte 500-600 |
| Umfang: | Getr. Zählg. |
| Zusammenfassung: | A. Historiography, chronicles and the sixth century. Byzantine chronicles ; Byzantium in the sixth century and the beginning of Byzantine history writing ; The classical tradition in Byzantine historiography ; Text and context in Byzantine historiography ; Towards a new history of Byzantine literature: the case of historiography / with Ingela Nilsson ; Chronicles versus classicizing history: Justinian's west and east -- B. Malalas, Theophanes and the sixth century. Malalas and his contemporaries ; Malalas and Justinian's codification ; Malalas, The secret history and Justinian's propaganda ; John Lydus on some procedural changes ; Diplomacy in the sixth century: the evidence of John Malalas ; "The events of every year, arranged without confusion": Justinian and others in the chronicle of Theophanes Confessor ; Writing the reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes -- C. Malalas, Theophanes and their Byzantine past. Malalas' view of the classical past ; The image of Constantine in Malalas and Theophanes ; From propaganda to history to literature: the Byzantine stories of Theodosius' apple and Marcian's eagles -- D. Reinterpreting the fifth and sixth centuries. Narrating Justinian: from Malalas to Manasses ; Interpreting the late fifth and sixth centuries form Byzantine chronicle trivia ; Justinian's new age and the second coming |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | Getr. Zählg. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781409441106 1409441105 |