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History as Literature in Byzantium - Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 (Paperback)
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History as Literature in Byzantium - Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 (Paperback)
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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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.
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