2007, ISBN: 9781351930642

Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Hist… Mehr…

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. Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007 Routledge European Medieval History anna, byzantine, choniates, chronike, historiography, komnene, madrid, niketas, skylitzes, synopsis 9781409412069, 9781138252387 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English History, Taylor and Francis<

2007, ISBN: 9781351930642

Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature.Histo… Mehr…

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.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory, Taylor and Francis<

2007, ISBN: 9781351930642

*History as Literature in Byzantium* - Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies University of Birmingham April 2007 / epub eBook für 53.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBook… Mehr…

*History as Literature in Byzantium* - Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies University of Birmingham April 2007 / epub eBook für 53.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub eBooks > Geschichte & Dokus, Taylor & Francis<

2007, ISBN: 9781351930642

History as Literature in Byzantium ab 53.99 € als epub eBook: Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies University of Birmingham April 2007. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, … Mehr…

History as Literature in Byzantium ab 53.99 € als epub eBook: Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies University of Birmingham April 2007. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus, Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub, Taylor & Francis Ltd.<

2016, ISBN: 9781351930642

Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Taylor and Francis], Taylor and Francis, 2016