1st Edition
Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople
By Dragoljub Marjanovic
Copyright 2018
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century. This book offers a close look at that volume and its manner of representing the historical role of Byzantine emperors and ecclesiology, with particular attention to the use of images, an issue of central importance amid the period's first outburst of... Read more
Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1 Nikephoros the Layman, Chapter 2 Short History in the Byzantine Historiographical Tradition, Chapter 3 Herakleios - a Model of an Emperor, Chapter 4 The Dark Century, Chapter 5 Iconoclasts Restoring Order, Conclusion, Glossary, Abbreviations and Bibliography, Index
Biography
Dragoljub Marjanovi. is an associate professor at the Chair and Seminar for Byzantine Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy - University of Belgrade
The forensic and thorough quality of the work offers Byzantinists new ideas about the seventh and eighth centuries in Constantinople, and a fresh in-depth study of a text that has not received such sustained attention since Cyril Mango's 1990 critical edition. - Meredith L. D. Riedel, Duke University Speculum 94/1 (January 2019)
