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Author Sarolta, Takacs, author

Title Understanding Byzantium : Studies in Byzantine Historical Sources / editors, Speck, Paul
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge revivals
Variorum collected studies series
Collected studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Publisherâ#x80;#x99;s Note; Acknowledgements; I The Dating of the So-Called Paradeisos; II Review of P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin. Notes et remarques sur enseignement et culture à Byzance des origines au Xe siÃc̈le; III The Iconoclast Iambic Verses on the Chalke; IV Peter of Sicily, his Historia and the Archbishop of Bulgaria; V A Byzantine Depiction of Ancient Athens; VI Photios on the Mosaic in the Apse of Hagia Sophia; VII â#x80;#x98;Contributions Open to Further Illuminating Discussionâ#x80;#x99
VIII Î#x93;Ï#x81;Î"Ï#x86;Î"îÏ#x82; áơÞ Î³Î"â#x88;®Ï#x86;Î"îÏ#x82;. On the Fragment of Hypatios of Ephesos on Images, with an Appendix on the Dialogue with a Jew by Leontios of NeapolisIX â#x80;#x98;Interpolations et non-sens indiscutablesâ#x80;#x99;: The First Poem of the Ptochoprodromika; X Artabasdos, Boniface and the Three Pallia; XI Classicism in the Eighth Century? The Homily of Patriarch Germanos on the Deliverance of Constantinople; XII The Origins of the Byzantine Renaissance; XIII A More Charitable Verdict: Review of N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium
XIV Further Reflections and Inquiries on the Origins of the Byzantine Renaissance with a supplement: The Trier Ivory and other UncertaintiesXV Interpretation of the Bellum Avaricum and the Tomcat ÏðÎæÏ#x87;λÎæÎơÏ#x80;ÎƯ in Three Parts; XVI Was Bronze a Rare Metal? The Legend of the Bull in the Forum Bovis in â#x80;#x98;Parastaseisâ#x80;#x99; Ch. 42; XVII Phokasâ#x80;#x99; Raising on the Shield; XVIII Marginalia to Corippusâ#x80;#x99; Poem In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris; XIX How Stupid Must Zosimos Be? Proposals for a New Assessment; XX Badly-Ordered Thoughts on Philhellenism; Index
Summary "This book was first published in 2003. 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 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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Byzantine literature -- History and criticism
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Byzantine literature
Civilization -- Study and teaching
Renaissance
SUBJECT Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- Study and teaching
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Sources
Subject Byzantine Empire
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Speck, Paul, author
ISBN 9781315193632
1315193639