| Autore |
Torgerson Jesse W.
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2022
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource
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| Disciplina |
930.01
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| Collana |
Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages
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| Soggetto topico |
Historiography - Byzantine Empire
History, Ancient - Historiography
Historiography
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| ISBN |
90-04-51685-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Two Notes on the Text -- Introduction: Reading the Chronographia on Its Own Terms -- 1 Reconstructing Authors or Re-Reading Manuscripts? A New Approach -- 2 Essential Terms and Their Implications for Reading -- 3 The Chronographia’s Invective against Eusebius as Its Claim to Auctoritas -- 4 The Place of the Chronographia in Byzantine Chronography -- 5 The Argument of This Book -- Part 1: The Argument of the Chronographia -- 1 Text and Manuscripts: The Imperial Logic of the Chronographia -- 1 The Ninth-Century Form of the Chronographia -- 2 The Structure of the Text: AM 5434 as the Beginning of a New Era -- 3 Time’s Order: A Chronology of Emperors or of Universal Years? -- 4 How the Dating Systems Work in Practice -- 5 The Imperial Time of the Chronographia -- 2 Author: The Synkellos and His Imperial Critique -- 1 The Significance of George’s Personal History for Reading the Chronographia -- 2 What Was a synkellos in ca. 800? -- 3 The synkelloi of the Chronographia and the Revolt of AM 6300 (AD 808) -- 4 The Associates of the Synkellos in the Revolt of AD 808 -- 5 The Synkellos’ Imperial Critique -- 3 Thesis: The First-Created Day -- 1 What Did the First-Created Day Mean? A Reliable Chronology of Empire -- 2 Theological Truth in the Chronological Paradox of the First-Created Day -- 3 Typology and Chronology: The Past Fulfilled in the Present -- 4 The First-Created Day and the Present Age -- 5 The Thesis of the First Created Day: Chronology and Typology -- 4 Reader: The Invitation of the Preface of Theophanes -- 1 The Preface: From Authorship to Readership -- 2 A Conceptual Map of the Preface -- 3 George as Author and Theophanes as His Reader -- 4 Theophanes, Author of “the Same Chronography,” and His Reader -- 5 The Invitation of the Preface -- Appendix: Preface of Theophanes as in Wake Greek 5, Collated with VG 155 -- Part 2: The Imperial Types of the Chronicle -- 5 Imperial Antitypes: Progenitors, Successors, and Greed -- 1 The Imperial Antitype: The Greedy Emperor -- 2 The Progenitor-Successor Type: Constantine-Constantius -- 3 The Corruption of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Herakleios-Constans -- 4 The Antitype of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Leo III to Constantine V -- 5 Interpreting the Antitypes in the Reader’s Present -- 6 Imperial Prototypes: Mothers, Sons, and Repentance -- 1 The Fulfillment of Early Rulers’ Virtues: Constantine I with Helena -- 2 The Paradigm of Good Rule: Theodosios II with Pulcheria -- 3 Irene and Constantine VI: From a Holy Beginning to a Failed Joint Reign -- 4 From Irene the Sinner to Irene the Repentant -- 5 Irene the Repentant Martyr -- 6 Mothers, Sons and Repentance -- 7 Nikephoros the All-Devourer -- 1 The Transition from Irene to Nikephoros: AM 6295–6296 (AD 802–804) -- 2 Nikephoros’ Failures and a Growing Opposition: AM 6297–6301 (AD 804–809) -- 3 The Ten Evils of Nikephoros I: An Overview -- 4 The First Five Evils: The Evils of Impiety -- 5 The Last Five Evils: The Evils of Greed -- 6 The Parable of the Keroullarios and the All-Devourer: A Typological Reading -- 7 The First End(ing) of the Chronographia -- Part 3: The Ends of the Chronographia -- 8 AD 815 and the End of History -- 1 Who Was against Nikephoros? The Faction behind the Chronographia Project -- 2 Who Is for Leo V? The Entries for AM 6303–6305 -- 3 AM 6303–6305 and the Community of the Chronographia -- 4 The Second End(ing) of the Chronographia -- 9 The Past’s Future: The Chronographia Project in the Mid-Ninth Century -- 1 Dating the Ninth-Century Recensions of the Chronographia -- 2 The Papal-Carolingian Excursus -- 3 The Chronographia and the Triumph of Orthodoxy: AD 843–847 -- 4 Writing Time in the Early Middle Ages -- Conclusion: Writing Time for an End -- 1 The Past Study -- 2 The Present Discourse -- 3 An End for the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Altri titoli varianti |
The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799289403321 |
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The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes : The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople / / Jesse W. Torgerson
