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Prokop von Templin, ein süddeutscher Barockprediger: Festvortrag
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Year: 1987 Publisher: München Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen

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Le Petit Prince et les amis au pays des traductions : études dédiées à Ursula Dąmbska-Prokop
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ISBN: 9788376382869 8376382861 Year: 2012 Publisher: Kraków : Księgarnia Akademicka,


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Działalnośc społeczno-polityczna Aleksandra Zawadzkiego (Ojca Prokopa) w Królestwie Polskim 1876-1917
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ISBN: 8373060065 9788373060067 Year: 2000 Volume: 206 Publisher: Lublin Towarzystwo naukowe katolickiego uniwersytetu Lubelskiego

Procopius of Caesarea : tyranny, history, and philosophy at the end of Antiquity
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ISBN: 0812237870 9786613211767 1283211769 0812202414 Year: 2004 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.): University of Pennsylvania Press

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Justinian governed the Roman empire for more than thirty-eight years, and the events of his reign were recorded by Procopius of Caesarea, secretary of the general Belisarius. Yet, significantly, Procopius composed a history, a panegyric, as well as a satire of his own times. Anthony Kaldellis here offers a new interpretation of these writings of Procopius, situating him as a major source for the sixth century and one of the great historians of antiquity and Byzantium.Breaking from the scholarly tradition that views classicism as an affected imitation that distorted history, Kaldellis argues that Procopius was a careful student of the classics who displayed remarkable literary skill in adapting his models to the purposes of his own narratives. Classicism was a matter of structure and meaning, not just vocabulary. Through allusions Procopius revealed truths that could not be spoken openly; through anecdotes he exposed the broad themes that governed the history of his age.Elucidating the political thought of Procopius in light of classical historiography and political theory, Kaldellis argues that he owed little to Christianity, finding instead that he rejected the belief in providence and asserted the supremacy of chance. By deliberately alluding to Plato's discussions of tyranny, Procopius developed an artful strategy of intertextuality that enabled him to comment on contemporary individuals and events. Kaldellis also uncovers links between Procopius and the philosophical dissidents of the reign of Justinian. This dimension of his writing implies that his work is worthy of esteem not only for the accuracy of its reporting but also for its cultural polemic, political dissidence, and philosophical sophistication.Procopius of Caesarea has wide implications for the way we should read ancient historians. Its conclusions also suggest that the world of Justinian was far from monolithically Christian. Major writers of that time believed that classical texts were still the best guides for understanding history, even in the rapidly changing world of late antiquity.


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Prokop und die Perser : Untersuchungen zu den römisch-sasanidischen Kontakten in der ausgehenden Spätantike
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ISBN: 9783515123556 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag

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Kaiser Valens und die heidnische Opposition
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ISBN: 3774926786 9783774926783 Year: 1995 Volume: 44 Publisher: Bonn Habelt

Die Geschichtsphilosophie in der spätantiken Historiographie : Studien zu Prokopios von Kaisareia, Agathias von Myrina und Theophylaktos Simokattes
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ISBN: 3631525281 Year: 2004 Volume: 5


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Procopius of Caesarea : literary and historical interpretations
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ISBN: 9781317075486 131707548X 9781472466044 1472466047 1317075498 9781317075493 9781315602288 9781317075479 9780367880767 Year: 2018 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,

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Presenting new literary and historical interpretations of the sixth-century writer Procopius of Caesarea, the major historian of Justinian's reign, this volume aims to encourage dialogue and collaboration between international scholars. Although scholarship on Procopius has flourished since 2004, when the last monograph in English on Procopius was published, there has not been a collection of essays on the subject since 2000. Work on Procopius since 2004 has been surveyed by Geoffrey Greatrex in his international bibliography; Peter Sarris has revised the 1966 Penguin Classics translation of, and introduced, Procopius' Secret History (2007); and Anthony Kaldellis has edited, translated and introduced Procopius' Secret History, with related texts (2010), and has recently revised and modernised H.B. Dewing's Loeb translation of Procopius' Wars as The Wars of Justinian in 2014. This volume capitalises on the renaissance in Procopius-related studies by showcasing recent work on Procopius in all its diversity and vibrancy. It offers approaches that shed new light on Procopius' texts by comparing them with a variety of relevant textual sources. In particular, the volume pays close attention to the text and examines what it achieves as a literary work and what it says as an historical product.


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Masculinity, identity, and power politics in the age of Justinian : a study of Procopius
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ISBN: 9048540259 9462988234 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea. Yet the notable but subtler ways in which gender coloured Procopius' most significant work, the Wars, have received far less attention. This monograph examines how gender shaped the presentation of not only key personalities such as the seminal power-couples Theodora/ Justinian and Antonina/ Belisarius, but also the Persians, Vandals, Goths, Eastern Romans, and Italo-Romans, in both the Wars and the Secret History. By analysing the purpose and rationale behind Procopius' gendered depictions and ethnicizing worldview, this investigation unpicks his knotty agenda. Despite Procopius's reliance on classical antecedents, the gendered discourse that undergirds both texts under investigation must be understood within the broader context of contemporary political debates at a time when control of Italy and North Africa from Constantinople was contested.


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Eclogarum in libros historicos Veteris Testamenti epitome
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ISBN: 9783110408720 9783110409833 9783110409932 3110408724 3110409844 3110409836 3110409933 Year: 2015 Volume: 22 1 Publisher: Berlin : de Gruyter,

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Procopius of Gaza wrote a major commentary on most of the historical books of the Old Testament (CPG 7430). This volume presents the first section, devoted to Genesis, for the first time in the complete Greek text. Amidst Procopius's continuous text we find a collection of excerpts that is of extraordinary value as a source in places where the original work was lost due to Council decisions or historical events. Prokop von Gaza (ca. 465/470-526/530) verfasste einen großen Kommentar zu den meisten Geschichtsbüchern des Alten Testaments (CPG 7430, bisher fälschlich als Catena in Octateuchum oder Catena in Heptateuchum bezeichnet). Hier wird die kritische Edition des ersten Teil, des Genesiskommentars, vorgelegt; sie enthält zum ersten Mal den vollständigen griechischen Text.Hinter dem fortlaufenden Texts Prokops verbirgt sich eine Sammlung von Exzerpten aus der Bibelexegese der griechischen Kirchenväter, die man zu seiner Zeit für die gültige Auslegung des Alten Testaments hielt. Besonderen Quellenwert haben diejenigen Exzerpte, für die sich in der uns erhaltenen Überlieferung keine Vorlage, oft nicht einmal der Name des Autors, identifizieren lässt; hier verbergen sich Fragmente, die in ihrer vollständigen Fassung verloren gegangen sind, sei es, weil ihre Verfasser auf späteren Konzilien zu Ketzern erklärt wurden, sei es, weil (gerade bei orientalischen Autoren) die vollständigen Handschriften während der arabischen Eroberung verloren gingen. Das Werk ist daher eine wichtige Quelle für alle, die sich mit der Älteren Kirchengeschichte oder die Exegese des Alten Testaments beschäftigen. Die mit Anmerkungen versehene deutsche Übersetzung der Editorin ist als Band N.F. 23 in der neuen Unterreihe „Übersetzungen / Translations“ der „Griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller“ erschienen.

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