A Companion to Byzantine Chronicles

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-43234-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1101 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tocci, Raimondo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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’ ????????: 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

Über Autor(innen)

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)