Why another greek chronicle?: Form and function in middle byzantine historical writing
This paper addresses Byzantine historical writing departing from the parameters of author, work and formal genre. Thus, instead of considering it as a sum of individual enterprises, emphasis will be placed on the concept of tradition. This will lead us to approach to Byzantine historiography as a co...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/716537 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/716537 https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004392076_010 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Byzantine Historical Writing Byzantine historiography Middle Byzantine period Medieval literature Manuscripts Filología Literatura |
| Sumario: | This paper addresses Byzantine historical writing departing from the parameters of author, work and formal genre. Thus, instead of considering it as a sum of individual enterprises, emphasis will be placed on the concept of tradition. This will lead us to approach to Byzantine historiography as a collective endeavour governed by formal and functional trends, and focused on developing an account of the past duly updated and in line with the main concerns of a given time. On the basis of relevant texts from the middle Byzantine period, the development of this historiographical tradition will be traced according to two main purposes: the construction of an organized and continuous account of the past from Creation until the present day, and the additional explanation of the events perceived as most relevant by altering their current narrative. This approach, combined with an in-depth study of the manuscript evidence, can help us to understand Byzantine historiography as a medieval literary product and to connect it with other contemporary traditions more researched as such |
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