(Re)writing history in Byzantium : a critical study of collections of historical excerpts /
Manafis, Panagiotis,
(Re)writing history in Byzantium : a critical study of collections of historical excerpts / Panagiotis Manafis. - 1 online resource - Routledge research in Byzantine studies .
Greek compilation literature from Byzantium -- Excerpta Anonymi -- Excerpta Salamasiana -- The Epitome of the 7th century -- Excerpta Planudea -- Collections of historical excerpts as a specific locus for (re)writing history.
"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"--
9780429351020 042935102X 9781000068757 1000068757 9781000068719 1000068714 9781000068733 1000068730
Byzantine literature--History and criticism.
HISTORY / General
Byzantine Empire--Historiography.
Byzantine Empire--Abstracts--History.
DF505
949.5/02072
(Re)writing history in Byzantium : a critical study of collections of historical excerpts / Panagiotis Manafis. - 1 online resource - Routledge research in Byzantine studies .
Greek compilation literature from Byzantium -- Excerpta Anonymi -- Excerpta Salamasiana -- The Epitome of the 7th century -- Excerpta Planudea -- Collections of historical excerpts as a specific locus for (re)writing history.
"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"--
9780429351020 042935102X 9781000068757 1000068757 9781000068719 1000068714 9781000068733 1000068730
Byzantine literature--History and criticism.
HISTORY / General
Byzantine Empire--Historiography.
Byzantine Empire--Abstracts--History.
DF505
949.5/02072