This book was first published in 2003.Paul Speck's work is acknowledged to be of profound importance for the study of the history and culture of the Byzantine world. If at times controversial, it has proved highly influential in terms of the approaches to be taken to historical and literary sources. For many, however, it has remained largely inaccessible in its original German. To help overcome this, the selection of studies presented here have been specially translated into English. Taken together, they make a substantial contribution to a critical understanding of Byzantine writing, and to an interpretation of history free from prejudice and stereotyped conceptions. Their coverage extends from the foundation of Constantinople to current perceptions of Byzantine history, but they focus in particular on the period from the 6th to the 9th centuries - the 'Dark Ages' and the Byzantine renaissance - and the transformation of Byzantium that then took place.
Author(s): Sarolta Takács, Paul Speck
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 314
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Publisher’s Note
Acknowledgements
I The Dating of the So-Called Paradeisos
II Review of P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin. Notes et remarques sur enseignement et culture à Byzance des origines au Xe siècle
III The Iconoclast Iambic Verses on the Chalke
IV Peter of Sicily, his Historia and the Archbishop of Bulgaria
V A Byzantine Depiction of Ancient Athens
VI Photios on the Mosaic in the Apse of Hagia Sophia
VII ‘Contributions Open to Further Illuminating Discussion’
VIII Γραφαîς ἤ γλ∪φαîς. On the Fragment of Hypatios of Ephesos on Images, with an Appendix on the Dialogue with a Jew by Leontios of Neapolis
IX ‘Interpolations et non-sens indiscutables’: The First Poem of the Ptochoprodromika
X Artabasdos, Boniface and the Three Pallia
XI Classicism in the Eighth Century? The Homily of Patriarch Germanos on the Deliverance of Constantinople
XII The Origins of the Byzantine Renaissance
XIII A More Charitable Verdict: Review of N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium
XIV Further Reflections and Inquiries on the Origins of the Byzantine Renaissance with a supplement: The Trier Ivory and other Uncertainties
XV Interpretation of the Bellum Avaricum and the Tomcat Ϻεχλεμπέ in Three Parts
XVI Was Bronze a Rare Metal? The Legend of the Bull in the Forum Bovis in ‘Parastaseis’ Ch. 42
XVII Phokas’ Raising on the Shield
XVIII Marginalia to Corippus’ Poem In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris
XIX How Stupid Must Zosimos Be? Proposals for a New Assessment
XX Badly-Ordered Thoughts on Philhellenism
Index
