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Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia

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Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history. Whatever can be called literary in these works has been considered as external and detachable from the facts. The 'classical tradition' inherited by Byzantine writers, the features that Byzantine authors imitated and absorbed, are regarded as standing in the way of understanding the true meaning of the text and, furthermore, of contaminating the reliability of the history. Chronicles, whose language and style are anything but classicizing, have been held in low esteem, for they are seen as providing a mere chronological exposition of events. This book presents a set of articles by an international cast of contributors, deriving from papers delivered at the 40th annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. They are concerned with historical and visual narratives that date from the sixth to the fourteenth century, and aim to show that literary analyses and the study of pictorial devices, far from being tangential to the study of historical texts, are preliminary to their further study, exposing the deeper structures and purposes of these texts.

Historiography --- Historiographie --- Byzantine literature --- History and criticism --- Byzantine Empire --- History --- Greek literature, Byzantine --- Greek literature, Medieval and late --- Greek literature --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia

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This book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.

Geschichte 811-1057. --- History of Greece --- anno 900-999 --- anno 800-899 --- anno 1000-1099 --- Byzantine Empire --- History --- Empire byzantin --- Histoire --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- History. --- Skylitses, Ioannes --- Byzantine Empire - History - 527-1081 - Early works to 1800

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Trade routes --- Commerce --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Mediterranean Region --- Conferences - Meetings --- Commercial routes --- Foreign trade routes --- Ocean routes --- Routes of trade --- Sea lines of communication --- Sea routes --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Trade routes - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - Commerce - Congresses --- Mediterranean Region - Commerce - Congresses --- Routes commerciales --- Méditerranée (région) --- 4e-15e siècles

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Epic poetry, Latin --- Corippus, Flavius Cresconius. --- Corippus, Flavius Cresconius --- Criticism and interpretation --- Byzantine Empire --- History --- Africa, North --- Epic poetry, Latin. --- Corippus, Flavius C. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Johannis (Corippus, Flavius Cresconius). --- To 647. --- Africa, North. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Latin epic poetry --- Latin poetry --- Corippe --- Goripp --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Epic poetry, Latin - Translations into German --- Corippus, Flavius Cresconius. - Johannis. - Liber 8 --- Corippus, Flavius Cresconius - Criticism and interpretation --- Africa, North - History - To 647 - Poetry