Title:
Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century / Roger Scott.
Variorum collected studies series
Collected studies ;
Author:
Scott, Roger, 1938-
General Notes:
Essays previously published., Essays previously published.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Publication Place:
Farnham :
ISBN:
9781409441106 (hbk.)
1409441105 (hbk.)
Subject:
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565 -- Historiography.
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justin II, 565-578 -- Historiography.
Malalas, John, approximately 491-approximately 578 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Theophanes, the Confessor, -approximately 818 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Series:
Variorum collected studies series
Collected studies ; CS1004.
Contents:
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.
Physical Description:
1 volume (various pagings) : portrait ;
Publication Date:
2012.
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