1st Edition

(Re)writing History in Byzantium A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts

By Panagiotis Manafis Copyright 2020
372 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century , the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planudea... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1. Greek Compilation Literature from Byzantium

Chapter 2. Excerpta Anonymi

Chapter 3. Excerpta Salamasiana

Chapter 4. The Epitome of the 7th century

Chapter 5. Excerpta Planudea

Chapter 6. Collections of historical excerpts as a specific locus for (re)writing history

Appendix I: Texts

Appendix II: Tables

Bibliography

Biography

Panagiotis Manafis is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include middle Byzantine literature, with a particular focus on the manuscript transmission of texts.