A Companion to Byzantine Chronicles

Buch | Hardcover

588 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-43234-5 (ISBN)

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Byzantine chronicles are a retelling of history, usually from the creation of the world, which transmit Byzantine historical truths and worldview. This volume brings to the fore the recent process of re-reading these texts, which were extremely popular in the Middle Ages.

A Byzantine chronicle is a retelling of history, usually beginning with the creation of the world, written in simple language and enriched by colourful anecdotes or tantalizing details on political intrigues. Though extremely popular in the Middle Ages, these texts were long disregarded by scholars due to their historical unreliability and lack of originality. Now, however, they are increasingly appreciated for the insights they provide into Byzantine ideology and the complex interaction of reading and writing in Byzantium. This volume highlights and contributes to the radical re-evaluation of this long-neglected genre of medieval literature.

Contributors are: Raimondo Tocci, William Adler, Thomas M. Banchich, Albrecht Berger, Richard W. Burgess, John Burke, Réka Forrai, Christian Gastgeber, Martin Hinterberger, Marek Jankowiak, Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Athanasios Markopoulos, Mischa Meier, Federico Montinaro, Diether Roderich Reinsch, Fabian Schulz, Roger Scott, Paul Tuffin, Staffan Wahlgren, and Varvara Zharkaya.

Raimondo Tocci, Ph.D. (2005), University of Hamburg, is an ass. professor of Byzantine Philology at the Democritus University of Thrace. He has published extensively on reading, writing, and copying Byzantine chronicles, including Theodore Skoutariotes, Chronica (de Gruyter, 2015) and Lesen und Schreiben im Freirand (in Anekdota Byzantina, de Gruyter, 2023)

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Raimondo Tocci

Part 1: Genre

1 Byzantine Chronography Revisited

Athanasios Markopoulos

2 Chronicles and Their Place in the Development of Byzantine Universal Historiography

R.W. Burgess

3 The Byzantines Wrote Chronicles: a Reply to Richard Burgess

Roger Scott

Part 2: Topics & Issues

4 The Language of Byzantine Chronicles

Martin Hinterberger

5 On the Value of Byzantine Chronicles as Historical Sources

Ralph-Johannes Lilie

6 Byzantine Chronicles and Antiquity

William Adler

7 Monuments and Buildings in Byzantine Chronicles

Albrecht Berger

Part 3: Chronicles & Chroniclers

8 The Chronographia of John Malalas

Fabian Schulz and Mischa Meier

9 The So-Called Chronicon Paschale, the Vatican Chronological Compilation with Computus

Christian Gastgeber

10.1 The Chronicle of Theophanes

Marek Jankowiak and Federico Montinaro

10.2 Anastasius Bibliothecarius and the Chronographia tripertita

Réka Forrai

11 From Theophanes to Psellos: the Middle Byzantine Period

Staffan Wahlgren

12 The Historia syntomos of Michael Psellos – Fifty Years after Its Rediscovery

Diether Roderich Reinsch

13 Originality via Plagiarism in the Chronicle of George Kedrenos

John Burke, Roger Scott, and Paul Tuffin

14 Zonaras’ ΑΠΟΚΥΗΜΑ: the Epitome of Histories

Thomas M. Banchich

15 Michael Glykas as a Chronicle Writer

Varvara Zharkaya

16 Reading and Writing Byzantine Chronicles in the Palaeologan Period

Raimondo Tocci

General Bibliography

Manuscript Index

General Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World ; 14
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1101 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-43234-5 / 9004432345
ISBN-13	978-90-04-43234-5 / 9789004432345
Zustand	Neuware