Book Series Research Series

Byzantine Authors and their Times

Vassiliki N. Vlyssidou (ed)

  • Pages: 467 p.
  • Size:210 x 280 mm
  • Language(s):English, Greek, French
  • Publication Year:2021

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  • ISBN: 978-960-7905-65-9
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Summary

In the present volume, historians and literacy scholars, studying sources dating from the 5th to the 14th century and focusing on issues relating to literary expression, ideology and society, highlight the ways in which Byzantine authors perceived and presented events and situations, which for some belonged to the distant past, while for others constituted personal experiences. Comparisons between texts of the same period often reveal the significant changes that occurred at the ideological, political, social and religious level, while comparisons among works of the same author can bring into view the said author as a individual and distinctive entity, expressing personal views and perspectives for the events of his/her own lifetime.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Zosimos: Reflections on the Decline of the Roman Empire
HELEN SARADI

O Καισαρεύς Προκόπιος και η κοινωνία της εποχής του
ΤΗΛΕΜΑΧΟΣ Κ. ΛΟΥΤΗΣ

The Religion of John Lydos: Antiquarianism and Religious Identity in the Sixth-Century Byzantine Intelligentsia
IOANNIS THEODORAKOPOULOS

Νικηφόρος Πατριάρχης, Γεώργιος Σύγκελλος, Θεοφάνης Ομολογητής. Οι κύριοι ιστορικοί της πρώτης εικονομαχίας
ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ ΓΙΑΝΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ

From Homologia to Antilogia: Resistance and Propaganda by Byzantine Hagiographers of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries
NIKE KOUTRAKOU

Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople (858-867; 877-886)
VLADA STANKOVIC

Genesios: l'historien insubordonné de la cour de Constantin VII Porphyrogénète
VASSILIKI N. VLYSSIDOU

Time, Space, and Physical Reality: Byzantine Authors and the Materiality of the Roman Imagined Community
DIMITRIS KRALLIS

The Poems "To Oneself" of John Mauropous: Traditions and Self-representative Strategies
FLORIS BERNARD

Theophylact of Ohrid between the Doukai and the Komnenoi
DARKO TODOROVIC

Enemies of Empire in the Muses, Nikephoros Bryennios' Material for History, and Anna Komnene's Alexiad
LEONORA NEVILLE

The Imperial Feminine in Niketas Choniates' History
ALICIA SIMPSON

Several Notes on John Phokas' Brief Ekphrasis
KONSTANTINOS CHRYSSOGELOS

Ο Θεόδωρος Βαλσαμών και η παρουσία του στο λογοτεχνικό περιβάλλον του δεύτερου μισού του 12ου αιώνα
ΧΑΡΗΣ ΜΕΣΣΗΣ

The Authorial Self of a Hagiographer through the Lens of his Letters: The Case of Constantine Akropolites
LEV LUKIIOVITSKIY - VARVARA ZHARKAYA

Ο Γεώργιος Παχυμέρης και η αυτοκρατορική εξουσία του Μιχαήλ Η΄ Παλαιολόγου
ΑΙΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΗ ΜΗΤΣΙΟΥ

Ο Μανουήλ Ολόβωλος και η Λατίνων φωνή: διανόηση και πολιτική
ΕΛΕΟΝΩΡΑ ΚΟΥΝΤΟΥΡΑ ΓΑΛΑΚΗ

Η τυπολογία στα έργα του Θεόδωρου Μετοχίτη: εφήμερη πραγματικότητα και επουράνια σταθερότητα στο ποίημα 19
ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΠΟΛΕΜΗΣ

Η εικόνα του ανώτερου κλήρου μέσα από τη Ρωμαϊκή Ιστορία του Νικηφόρου Γρηγορά
ΑΝΝΑ ΣΚΛΑΒΕΝΙΤΗ

John VI Kantakouzenos and Money: A Reading

DIONYSIOS STATHAKOPOULOS

On the Poem by the Hieromonk and Exarch Matthew About the City of Theodora (Crimea)
GUNTER PRINZING