History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th–10th Centuries

Athanasios Markopoulos

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781138375574
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000939347
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty, and include four translated into English for this volume. They reflect both historical and prosopographical concerns, but Professor Markopoulos's principle interest is in the analysis of literary works and texts. This he combines with the examination of the ideological context of the period, as shaped in the reigns of Basil I and Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, and the investigation of gender issues and other approaches. The close analysis of the texts shows how, after the close of Iconoclasm, new styles of writing and new attitudes towards the writing of history emerged, for instance in the use of mythological themes, which exemplify the changing intellectual concerns of the time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I Encore les RÔs-Dromitai et le Pseudo-Syméon
• II La Vie de Saint Georges d'Amastris et Photius
• III Le témoignage du Vaticanus gr. 163 pour la période entre 945-963
• IV Joseph Bringas: Prosopographical Problems and Ideological Trends
• V Βίος τῆς αὐτοϰράτειρας Θεοδώρας (BHG 1731)
• VI Sur les deux versions de la Chronographie de Syméon Logothète
• VII Συμβολὴ στὴ χρονολόγηση τοῦ Γεωργίου Μοναχοῦ
• VIII Théodore Daphnopatès et la Continuation de Théophane
• IX Kedrenos, Pseudo-Symeon, and the Last Oracle at Delphi
• X Contribution à l'épistolographie du Xe siècle. Les lettres de Bardas le moine
• XI Quelques remarques sur la famille des Génésioi aux IXe-Xe siècles
• XII New Evidence on the Date of Photios' Bibliotheca
• XIII Zu den Biographien des Nikephoros Phokas
• XIV An Anonymous Laudatory Poem in Honor of Basil I
• XV Constantine the Great in Macedonian Historiography: Models and Approaches
• XVI Άποσημειώσεις στόν Λέοντα ΣΤ' τόν Σοφό
• XVII Überlegungen zu Leben und Werk des Alexandras von Nikaia
• XVIII 'Επίγραμμα πρὸς τιμὴν τοῦ Λέοντος ΣΤ' τοῦ Σοφοῦ
• XIX The Emperor Basil I and Hippolytus: Legend and History
• XX The Rehabilitation of the Emperor Theophilos
• XXI Autour des Chapitres parénétiques de Basile Ier
• XXII La Chronique de l'an 811 et le Scriptor incertus de Leone Armenio: Problèmes des relations entre l'hagiographie et l'histoire
• XXIII Gender issues in Leo the Deacon
• Addenda et corrigenda
• Index