Byzantine Narrative: Papers in Honour of Roger Scott

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Roger Scott

List of Illustrations

KEYNOTE PAPERS

Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction

Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses

NARRATIVE IN HISTORIANS, CHRONICLES & FICTION

To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium

Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading

Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor

The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia

War and Peace in the Alexiad

Moralising History: the Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes

The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum

The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment

The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return

From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity

How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative

Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople

A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans

NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART

The Narration of Christ' s Passion in Early Christian Art

Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt

The Column of Arcadius: Retlections of a Roman Narrative Tradition

Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia

Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviška in Prizren

Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration

Sources for the Story of the Creation in the Mosaics of Sicily and Venice

Icon and Narrative: Memorializing Saint Francis in Assisi

Authentication, Theology and Narrative in the Gospel Book of Theophanes

Spiritual Progression in the Canon Tables of the Melbourne Gospels

CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE AND ESCHATOLOGY

Clement of Alexandria - From Prophecy to Plato

The 'Sacred Remains' of Constantine and Helena

A Byzantine Narrative of the Future and the Antecedents of the Last World Emperor

Kosmas Indikopleustes and Narratives in Sixth-century Liturgy and History

Kaiserkritik in Two Kontakia of Romanos

Byzantine Visionary Accounts of the Other World. A Reconsideration

A Ninth Century Passion Harmony

ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY, ECONOMY AND TA EXOTIKA

'Pothos tes Philoktistou': Anicia Juliana' s Architectural Narratology

Spoliation and Imitation: Continuity and Radical Disjunction in Byzantine Palatine Architecture

Historians and the Economy: Zosimos and Prokopios on Fifth- and Sixth- Century Economie Development

Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-century Eastern Mediterranean

Narrative of the Byzantine Landscape

Narratives of the Roman-Byzantine World in Ancient Chinese Sources

Narrative Materials about the Byzantines in Chinese Sources

Three Byzantine Lead Seals from Devolgrad (Ancient Audaristos) near Stobi

The Varangian Guard

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Bibliographical Abbreviations

Index