Byzantine Narrative: Papers in honour of Roger Scot

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John Burke, Ursula Betka, Penelope Buckley, Kathleen Hay, Roger Scott, Andrew Stephenson
BRILL, 2006 M01 1 - 652 pages
Preliminary Material /John Burke -- Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction /Margaret Mullett -- Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses /Roger Scott -- To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium /lngela Nilsson -- Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading /Brian Croke -- Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor /Bronwen Neil -- The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia /Elizabeth McCartney -- War and Peace in the Alexiad /Penelope Buckley -- Moralising History: the Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes /Theoni Sklavos -- The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum /Emma Strugnell -- The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment /John Burke -- The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return /Andrew Gillett -- From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity /Eamonn H.R. Kelly -- How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative /Nick Nicholas -- Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople /Vicky Panayotopoulou-Doulavera -- A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans /Dean Sakel -- The Narration of Christ' s Passion in Early Christian Art /Felicity Harley -- Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt /Matthew Martin -- The Column of Arcadius: Retlections of a Roman Narrative Tradition /Julia Kelly -- Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia /Debbie Del Frate -- Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviška in Prizren /Balša Djurić -- Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration /Nira Stone -- Sources for the Story of the Creation in the Mosaics of Sicily and Venice /Joan Barclay Lloyd -- Icon and Narrative: Memorializing Saint Francis in Assisi /Ursula Betka -- Authentication, Theology and Narrative in the Gospel Book of Theophanes /Margaret Manion -- Spiritual Progression in the Canon Tables of the Melbourne Gospels /Nancy P. Ševčenko -- Clement of Alexandria - From Prophecy to Plato /Eric Osborn -- The 'Sacred Remains' of Constantine and Helena /John Wortley -- A Byzantine Narrative of the Future and the Antecedents of the Last World Emperor /Bill Leadbetter -- Kosmas Indikopleustes and Narratives in Sixth-century Liturgy and History /Michael Champion -- Kaiserkritik in Two Kontakia of Romanos /Annamma Varghese -- Byzantine Visionary Accounts of the Other World. A Reconsideration /Andrei Timotin -- A Ninth Century Passion Harmony /Peter A.L. Hill -- 'Pothos tes Philoktistou': Anicia Juliana' s Architectural Narratology /Geoffrey Nathan -- Spoliation and Imitation: Continuity and Radical Disjunction in Byzantine Palatine Architecture /Nigel Westbrook -- Historians and the Economy: Zosimos and Prokopios on Fifth- and Sixth- Century Economie Development /Hartmut Ziche -- Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-century Eastern Mediterranean /Tamara Lewit.
 

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KEYNOTE PAPERS
1
NARRATIVE IN HISTORIANS CHRONICLES FICTION
47
NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART
221
CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE AND ESCHATOLOGY
344
ARCHITECTURE ARCHAEOLOGY ECONOMY AND TA EXOTIKA
433

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