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041 0 _aEnglish
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100 1 _aManafis, Panagiotis
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245 1 0 _a(Re)writing History in Byzantium : A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2020
300 _a1 electronic resource (372 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aScholars 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.
536 _aUniversity of Birmingham
540 _aCreative Commons
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aMedieval history
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650 7 _aLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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653 _aByzantium
653 _ahistoriography
653 _aMedieval manuscripts
653 _acollections
653 _acompilations
653 _asylloge
653 _amemory
653 _aByzantine literature
653 _abook studies
653 _aExcerpta Anonymi
653 _aExcerpta Salamasiana
653 _aExcerpta Planudea
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