Understanding Byzantium : studies in Byzantine historical sources / Paul Speck ; edited by Sarolta Takács.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speck, Paul.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS631.

Collected studies

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 1999

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

History.

Civilization.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine literature--History and criticism.

Byzantine literature.

Renaissance.

Byzantine Empire--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860786919

OCLC:

40417882