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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past (Hardcover)
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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past (Hardcover)
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The Excerpta project instigated by the Byzantine emperor
Constantine VII turned the enormously rich experience offered by
Greek historiography into a body of excerpts distributed across
fifty-three distinct thematic collections. In this, the first
sustained analysis, Andras Nemeth moves from viewing the Excerpta
only as a collection of textual fragments to focusing on its
dependence from and impact on the surrounding Byzantine culture in
the tenth century. He introduces the concept of appropriation and
also uses it to study some other key texts created under the
Excerpta's influence (De thematibus, De administrando imperio and
De ceremoniis). Unlike world chronicles, the Excerpta ignored the
chronological dimension of history and fostered the biographical
turn in Byzantine historiography. By exploring theoretical
questions such as classification and retrieval of historical
information and the relationship between knowledge and political
power, this book provides powerful new ways for exploring the
Excerpta in Byzantine studies and beyond.
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