History as literature in Byzantium : papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 / / edited by Ruth Macrides

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 949.502072
• Soggetto topico: Historiography - Byzantine Empire; Byzantine literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Byzantine Empire Historiography Congresses; Byzantine Empire History Sources Congresses
• Altri autori: MacridesR. J
• Note generali: First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: section 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: History as literature in Byzantium
• ISBN: 1-351-93064-8; 1-138-25238-7; 1-315-25330-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155001603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II