Novum Millennium

Studies on Byzantine History and Culture Dedicated to Paul Speck

Claudia Sode, Sarolta Takács

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351914277
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This volume reflects the different methods and new approaches to the study of Byzantine history that have characterized the work of Paul Speck, to whom it is dedicated, and above all, his insistence on a close reading and careful interpretation of the sources. These aims are encapsulated in the introduction by John Haldon, which gives a sense of where future studies should lead new generations of scholars. The following studies, by many of the leading authorities in their fields, look at a whole range of aspects of the history of Byzantium - its culture, theology, linguistics, literature, historiography, sigillography and art - and at the place of the Byzantine empire within the late antique and medieval worlds.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Bibliography of Publications
• General Introduction Byzantium after 2000: Post-Millennial, but not Post-Modern?
• Alexander der Große am Bosporus
• Philippos ὁ στρατηλάτης του̑ βασιλικου̑ ᾽ΟΨικίου: Anmerkungen zur Frühgeschichte des Thema Opsikion
• Melania
• Oracles and Earthquakes: A Note on the Theodosian Sibyl
• Les ducs d’Antioche sous Michel IV et Constantin IX
• Der Kaiser, sein Bild und dessen Interpret
• Perils of the Deep
• Bitter Brine and Sweet Fresh Water: The Anatomy of a Metaphor in Psellos
• Das Theodosius-Missorium von 388: Anmerkungen zur politischen Ikonographie in der Spätantike
• La pomme de Théodose II et sa réplique arménienne
• Theodora and Evita: Two Women in Power
• Three Authors in Search of a Reader: An Approach to the Analysis of Direct Discourse in Procopius, Agathias and Theophylact Simocatta
• Philippikos and the Greens
• Es war die Nachtigall: Zum Sprecherinnenwechsel in einer byzantinischen Totenklage
• The Venetian Quarter of Constantinople from 1082 to 1261: Topographical Considerations
• Icon Veneration: Significance of the Restoration of Orthodoxy?
• Parerga zur Ikonographie des Josua-Rotulus und der illuminierten byzantinischen Oktateuche: I. Die “Grabstele” von Jericho
• “Falsata Graecorum more”?: Die griechische Version der Briefe Papst Hadrians I. in den Akten des VII. Ökumenischen Konzils
• John III Ducas Vatatzes and the Venetians: The Episode of his Anti-Venetian Cretan Campaigns, 1230 and 1234
• Bonifatios von Tarsos: Ein Verwandter der bekehrten Mimen
• Du consul à l’empereur: Les sceaux d’Héraclius
• Le monastère de la Sainte Trinité à Boradion sur le Bosphore
• Nebenterminologie, Topoi, Loci similes und Quellen in einigen Stellen der Chronike diegesis von Niketas Choniates
• Palladius, Lausus and the Historia Lausiaca
• Political Dimensions of Manuel II Palaiologos’ 1392 Marriage and Coronation: Some New Evidence
• Zu den diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Byzanz und dem Kalifat in der Zeit der syrischen Dynastie (717-802)
• Those “Whose Writings were Exchanged”: John of Damascus, George Choeroboscus and John ‘Arklas’ according to the Prooimion of Eustathius’s Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum de Pentecoste
• Robert de Clari und Konstantinopel
• ‘Dog-Knights’ and ‘Elulargency’: Greek Ghost-Words in Medieval Arabic Sources
• Sigillography in the Service of History: New Light
• Diplomatie und Propaganda im 9. Jahrhundert: Die Gesandtschaft des al-Ghazal nach Konstantinopel
• Islamische und byzantinische Geschichtsschreibung
• Das Wort βαρσαμέχουμνος im Opsarologos
• Faustus “of Byzantium”, Procopius, and the Armenian History (Jacoby, FGrHist 679, 3-4)
• The Christianization of Sexual Slander: Some Preliminary Observations
• Exempla aus der griechischen Geschichte in Byzanz
• The Greek and Arabic Sources on the Eight Day Captivity of the Emperor Romanos IV in the Camp of the Sultan Alp Arslan after the Battle of Mantzikert