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(Re)writing History in Byzantium - A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts (Paperback)
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(Re)writing History in Byzantium - A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
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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 (thirteenth century). Three aspects of these texts are
analysed in detail: their method of redaction, their literary
structure, and their cultural and political function. Combining
codicological, literary, and political analyses, this study
contributes to a better understanding of the intertwining of
knowledge and power, and suggests that these collections of
historical excerpts should be seen as a Byzantine way of rewriting
history. The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429351020, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
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