Understanding Byzantium : studies in Byzantine historical sources
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Understanding Byzantium : studies in Byzantine historical sources
(Variorum collected studies series, CS631)
Ashgate, c2003
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 also 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.
Table of Contents
- Concerning the dating of the so-called Paradeisos
- Review of P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin
- The iconoclastic iambic verses on the Chalke
- Petros Sikeliotes, his Historia and the Archbishop of Bulgaria
- A Byzantine depiction of the ancient city Athens
- Photios on the mosaic in the apse of Hagia Sophia
- Contributions for further illuminating discussion
- "Graphais e glyphais" - on the fragment of Hypatios of Ephesos about pictures, with an appendix - on Leontios of Neapolis' Dialogue with a Jew
- "Interpolations et non-sens indiscutables" - the first poem of the Ptochoprodromika
- Artabasdos, Bonifatius and the three pallia
- Classicism in the 8th century? - The homily of Patriarch Germanos on the deliverance of Constantinople
- The origins of the Byzantine renaissance
- A more charitable verdict
- Further reflections and inquiries into the origins of the Byzantine renaissance, with a supplement - the Trier Ivory and other obscurities
- The interpretation of the Bellum Avaricum and the tomcat "Mekhlempe" in three parts, I - the protest of Patriarch Sergios against the marriage of Herakleios with Martina, II - The embassy of patrikios Athanasios to the Khan of the Avars, III - The Bellum Avaricum: verses 457-61
- Was bronze a rare metal? The legend of the bull in the 'Bus' square in Parastaseis 42
- Phokas' raising on the shield
- Marginalia to Corippus' poem In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris
- How stupid is Zosimus allowed to be?
- Badly organised thoughts on philhellenism: 'Ataktes skepseis gia ton Philellenismo' in West-European literature 1780-1830.
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