LEADER 03453oam 2200553I 450 001 9910155001603321 005 20240505161531.0 010 $a1-351-93064-8 010 $a1-138-25238-7 010 $a1-315-25330-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315253305 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758216 035 $a(OCoLC)973026477 035 $a(BIP)63371733 035 $a(BIP)29889808 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965249 100 $a20180706e20162010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHistory as literature in Byzantium $epapers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 /$fedited by Ruth Macrides 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (351 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aSociety for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Publications ;$v15 300 $aFirst published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a1-4094-1206-7 311 08$a1-351-93065-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $asection I. Aesthetics -- section II. Audience -- section III. Narrator -- section IV. Story-telling -- section V. The classical tradition reinterpreted -- section VI. Sources reconfigured -- section VII. Structure and themes. 330 $aAlthough 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. 606 $aHistoriography$zByzantine Empire$vCongresses 606 $aByzantine literature$xHistory and criticism$vCongresses 607 $aByzantine Empire$xHistoriography$vCongresses 607 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory$xSources$vCongresses 615 0$aHistoriography 615 0$aByzantine literature$xHistory and criticism 676 $a949.502072 701 $aMacrides$b R. J$0892652 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155001603321 996 $aHistory as literature in Byzantium$91993891 997 $aUNINA