(Re)writing history in Byzantium : a critical study of collections of historical excerpts /
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Author / Creator: | Manafis, Panagiotis, author. |
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge research in Byzantine studies Routledge research in Byzantine studies. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12345783 |
ISBN: | 9780429351020 042935102X 9780367367305 9781000068757 1000068757 9781000068719 1000068714 9781000068733 1000068730 0367367300 9780367367305 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. |
Summary: | "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 re-writing history"-- |
Other form: | Print version: Manafis, Panagiotis. (Re)writing history in Byzantium Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9780367367305 |
Standard no.: | 10.4324/9780429351020 |
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