(Re)writing History in Byzantium

Name: (Re)writing History in Byzantium
Brand: Taylor & Francis > University of Birmingham

Taylor & Francis > University of Birmingham

(Re)writing History in ByzantiumA Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts\nAuthor(s): Panagiotis Manafis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367367305, 978-0367367305\nSynopsis\nScholars 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 co.