History as literature in Byzantium : papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 /

Corporate Author: Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies University of Birmingham)
Other Authors: Macrides, R. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
Series:Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies publication ; 15
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245 1 0 |a History as literature in Byzantium :  |b papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 /  |c edited by Ruth Macrides. 
260 |a Surrey, England ;  |b Ashgate,  |c c2010.  |a Burlington, VT : 
300 |a xxv, 324 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies publication ;  |v 15 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a Aesthetics -- The aesthetics of history : from Theophanes to Eustathios / Stratis Papaioannou -- Audience -- Uncovering Byzantium's historiographical audience / Brian Croke -- Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates "translated" : the fourteenth-century Byzantine metaphrases / John Davis -- Narrator -- Psellos and "his emperors" : fact, fiction, and genre / Michael Jeffreys -- "Listen, all of you, both Franks and Romans" : the narrator in the Chronicle of Morea / Teresa Shawcross -- Story-telling -- From propaganda to history to literature : the Byzantine stories of Theodosius' apple and Marcian's eagles / Roger Scott -- Dream narratives in historical writing : making sense of history in Theophanes' Chronographia / George T. Calofonos -- The Venice Alexander romance : pictorial narrative and the art of telling stories / Nicolette S.Trahoulia -- The classical tradition reinterpreted -- A historian and his tragic hero : a literary reading of Theophylact Simocatta's ecumenical history / Stephanos Efthymiades -- Envy and Nemesis in the Vita Basilii and Leo the Deacon : literary mimesis or something more? / Martin Hinterberger -- Sources reconfigured -- The story of the patriarch Constantine II of Constantinople in Theophanes and George the Monk : transformations of a narrative / Dmitry Afinogenov -- Engaging the Byzantine past : strategies of visualizing history in Sicily and Bulgaria / Elena N. Boeck -- The Synopsis chronike and hagiography : the presentation of Constantine the Great / Konstantinos Zafeiris -- Structure and themes -- Procopius' Persian War : a thematic and literary analysis / Anthony Kaldellis -- La chronique de Malalas entre litterature et philosophie / Paolo Odorico -- Rhetoric and history : the case of Niketas Choniates / Athanasios Angelou. 
650 0 |a Historiography  |z Byzantine Empire 
650 0 |a Byzantine literature  |x History and criticism 
651 0 |a Byzantine Empire  |x Historiography 
651 0 |a Byzantine Empire  |x History 
700 1 |a Macrides, R. J. 
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