First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing.
This volume reflects the different methods and new approaches to the study of Byzantine history that have characterized the work of Paul Speck, to whom it is dedicated, and above all, his insistence on a close reading and careful interpretation of the sources. These aims are encapsulated in the introduction by John Haldon, which gives a sense of where future studies should lead new generations of scholars. The following studies, by many of the leading authorities in their fields, look at a whole range of aspects of the history of Byzantium - its culture, theology, linguistics, literature, historiography, sigillography and art - and at the place of the Byzantine empire within the late antique and medieval worlds.
Author(s): Claudia Sode, Sarolta Takács (eds.)
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English, German, French
Pages: XX+450
Preface ix
Bibliography of Publications by Paul Speck xi
General Introduction. Byzantium after 2000: Post-Millennial, but not Post-Modern? / John Haldon 1
Alexander der Große am Bosporus / Albrecht Berger 13
Philippos 'ὁ στρατηλάτης του βασιλικου ᾽ΟΨικίου': Anmerkungen zur Frühgeschichte des Thema Opsikion / Wolfram Brandes 21
Melania / William Brashear 41
Oracles and Earthquakes: A Note on the Theodosian Sibyl / Alan Cameron 45
Les ducs d’Antioche sous Michel IV et Constantin IX / Jean-Claude Cheynet 53
Der Kaiser, sein Bild und dessen Interpret / Carolina Cupane 65
Perils of the Deep / George T. Dennis 81
Bitter Brine and Sweet Fresh Water: The Anatomy of a Metaphor in Psellos / John Duffy 89
Das Theodosius-Missorium von 388: Anmerkungen zur politischen Ikonographie in der Spätantike / Arne Effenberger 97
La pomme de Théodose II et sa réplique arménienne / Michel van Esbroeck 109
Theodora and Evita: Two Women in Power / Clive Foss 113
Three Authors in Search of a Reader: An Approach to the Analysis of Direct Discourse in Procopius, Agathias and Theophylact Simocatta / Joseph D. Frendo 123
Philippikos and the Greens / Judith Herrin 137
Es war die Nachtigall: Zum Sprecherinnenwechsel in einer byzantinischen Totenklage / Wolfram Hörandner 147
The Venetian Quarter of Constantinople from 1082 to 1261: Topographical Considerations / David Jacoby 153
Icon Veneration: Significance of the Restoration of Orthodoxy? / Patricia Karlin-Hayter 171
Parerga zur Ikonographie des Josua-Rotulus und der illuminierten byzantinischen Oktateuche: I. Die "Grabstele" von Jericho / Otto Kresten 185
"Falsata Graecorum more"?: Die griechische Version der Briefe Papst Hadrians I. in den Akten des VII. Ökumenischen Konzils / Erich Lamberz 213
John III Ducas Vatatzes and the Venetians: The Episode of his Anti-Venetian Cretan Campaigns, 1230 and 1234 / John S. Langdon 231
Bonifatios von Tarsos: Ein Verwandter der bekehrten Mimen / Claudia Ludwig 251
Du consul à l’empereur: Les sceaux d’Héraclius / Cécile Morrisson 257
Le monastère de la Sainte Trinité à Boradion sur le Bosphore / Nicolas Oikonomides 267
Nebenterminologie, Topoi, Loci similes und Quellen in einigen Stellen der "Chronike diegesis" von Niketas Choniates / Anna Pontani 271
Palladius, Lausus and the "Historia Lausiaca" / Claudia Rapp 279
Political Dimensions of Manuel II Palaiologos’ 1392 Marriage and Coronation: Some New Evidence / Stephen W. Reinert 291
Zu den diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Byzanz und dem Kalifat in der Zeit der syrischen Dynastie (717-802) / Ilse Rochow 305
Those "Whose Writings were Exchanged": John of Damascus, George Choeroboscus and John 'Arklas' according to the Prooimion of Eustathius’s "Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum de Pentecoste" / Silvia Ronchey 327
Robert de Clari und Konstantinopel / Peter Schreiner 337
'Dog-Knights' and 'Elulargency': Greek Ghost-Words in Medieval Arabic Sources / Nikolaj Serikoff 357
Sigillography in the Service of History: New Light / Irfan Shahid 369
Diplomatie und Propaganda im 9. Jahrhundert: Die Gesandtschaft des al-Ghazal nach Konstantinopel / Juan Signes Codoñer 379
Islamische und byzantinische Geschichtsschreibung / Gotthard Strohmaier 393
Das Wort 'βαρσαμέχουμνος' im Opsarologos / Dimitri Theodoridis 401
Faustus "of Byzantium", Procopius, and the "Armenian History" (Jacoby, 'FGrHist' 679, 3-4) / Giusto Traina 405
The Christianization of Sexual Slander: Some Preliminary Observations / Martha P. Vinson 415
Exempla aus der griechischen Geschichte in Byzanz / Eva de Vries-van der Velden 425
The Greek and Arabic Sources on the Eight Day Captivity of the Emperor Romanos IV in the Camp of the Sultan Alp Arslan after the Battle of Mantzikert / Speros Vryonis, Jr. 439
