Understanding Byzantium : studies in Byzantine historical sources /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Aldershot, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. :
Ashgate,
[2003]
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| Series: | Collected studies ;
CS631. |
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Table of Contents:
- I The Dating of the So-Called Paradeisos 1
- II Review of P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin. Notes et remarques sur enseignement et culture a Byzance des origines au Xe siecle 6
- III The Iconoclast Iambic Verses on the Chalke 17
- IV Peter of Sicily, his Historia and the Archbishop of Bulgaria 22
- V A Byzantine Depiction of Ancient Athens 29
- VI Photios on the Mosaic in the Apse of Hagia Sophia 33
- VII 'Contributions Open to Further Illuminating Discussion' 37
- VIII [characters not reproducible] On the Fragment of Hypatios of Ephesos on Images, with an Appendix on the Dialogue with a Jew by Leontios of Neapolis 50
- IX 'Interpolations et non-sens indiscutables': The First Poem of the Ptochoprodromika 84
- X Artabasdos, Boniface and the Three Pallia 104
- XI Classicism in the Eighth Century? The Homily of Patriarch Germanos on the Deliverance of Constantinople 123
- XII The Origins of the Byzantine Renaissance 143
- XIII A More Charitable Verdict: Review of N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium 163
- XIV Further Reflections and Inquiries on the Origins of the Byzantine Renaissance with a supplement: The Trier Ivory and other Uncertainties 179
- XV Interpretation of the Bellum Avaricum and the Tomcat [characters not reproducible] in Three Parts 205
- XVI Was Bronze a Rare Metal? The Legend of the Bull in the Forum Bovis in 'Parastaseis' Ch. 42 232
- XVII Phokas' Raising on the Shield 248
- XVIII Marginalia to Corippus' Poem In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris 250
- XIX How Stupid Must Zosimos Be? Proposals for a New Assessment 263
- XX Badly-Ordered Thoughts on Philhellenism 280.