Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century /
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| Author / Creator: | Scott, Roger, 1938- |
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| Imprint: | Farnham : Ashgate, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 v. (various pagings) : port. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Variorum collected studies series Collected studies ; CS1004. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8932357 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part A. Historiography, Chronicles and the 6th Century
- Byzantine chronicles
- Byzantium in the 6th century and the beginning of Byzantine historical 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
- Part B. Malalas, Theophanes and the 6th 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 6th 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
- Part 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
- Part D. Reinterpreting the 5th and 6th Centuries
- Narrating Justinian: from Malalas to Manasses
- Interpreting the late 5th and early 6th centuries from Byzantine chronicle trivia
- Justinian's new age and the Second Coming
- Index
