TY  - GEN
AU  - Manafis,Panagiotis
TI  - (Re)writing History in Byzantium : A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts
SN  - 9780429351020
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Medieval history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
KW  - Byzantium
KW  - historiography
KW  - Medieval manuscripts
KW  - collections
KW  - compilations
KW  - sylloge
KW  - memory
KW  - Byzantine literature
KW  - book studies
KW  - Excerpta Anonymi
KW  - Excerpta Salamasiana
KW  - Excerpta Planudea
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Scholars 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 collections of historical excerpts should be seen as a Byzantine way of rewriting history
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37744/1/9780367367305_text.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35700
ER  -