The Depiction of Character in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos
Author: Frederick Lauritzen
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9782503558882
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The Depiction of Character in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos
Author: Frederick Lauritzen
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503548418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharacter is the single most important feature of the Chronographia written by Michael Psellos (1018-1081?). It is an historical account of the events at court from the time of Basil II (986-1025) to Michael VII Doukas (1071-1078) with the insight of someone whose career developed within the imperial court and his unsurpassed eye for details of personality was enlightened by his intellectual interests. During his lifetime, Psellos was considered the forefront of philosophical studies in the capital and therefore was named consul of philosophers in 1047 and he credited himself with reintroducing Plato on the cultural scene of Constantinople. It was his attractive manner of speech which led him to remain in the emperor's presence and his rhetorical ability also plays an important role in the Chronographia, especially when he emphasizes or fabricates events to justify his understanding of a person's mind. Many have employed Psellos' Chronographia for its value in shedding light on historic events, itself important, though it often neglects the fact that Psellos' historiography is not based on factual details to explain multiple causes for events, but seeks to attribute blame or merit to the personality of the ruling emperor.
Michael Psellos on Literature and Art
Author: Michael Psellos
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 0268100519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public.
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1979-09-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0141904550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.
The Argument of Psellos' Chronographia
Author: Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9004452869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a philosophical interpretation of Michael Psellos' Chronographia, an acknowledged masterpiece of Byzantine literature. Anthony Kaldellis argues that although the Chronographia contains a fascinating historical narrative; it is really a disguised philosophical work which, if read carefully, reveals Psellos' revolutionary views on politics and religion. Kaldellis exposes the rhetorical techniques with which Psellos veils his unorthodoxy, and demonstrates that the inner message of the text challenges the Church's supremacy over the intellectual and political life of Byzantium. Psellos consciously articulates a secular vision of Imperial politics, and seeks to liberate philosophy from the constraints of Christian theology. The analysis is lucid and should be accessible to anyone with a general knowledge of Byzantine civilization. It should interest all who study the history of ancient and medieval philosophy.
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2
Author: Dragos Calma
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9004440682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. The impact of the Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts and evidences. This second volume revises widely accepted hypotheses about the reception of the Proclus’ text in Byzantium and the Caucasus, and about the context that made possible the composition of the Book of Causes and its translations into Latin and Hebrew. The contributions offer a unique, comparative perspective on the various ways a pagan author was acculturated to the Abrahamic traditions.
The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium
Author: Michael Edward Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-31
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0429633408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; and Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early and Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire’s long life.
Myriobiblos
Author: Theodora Antonopoulou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-12-18
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 1501501623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New editions and analyses of texts and documents are included. The essays combine traditional scholarship with newer approaches, thus reflecting the current dynamics of the field.
Chronographia
Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher:
Published: 2023-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781960069504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a history of the Byzantine emperors during the century leading up to Psellos' own time. It covers the reigns of fourteen emperors and empresses, beginning with the almost 50-year-long reign of Basil II, the "Bulgar-Slayer" (976-1025), and ending some time during the reign of Michael VII Doukas (1071-1078).
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 9004409440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-125 AD) makes a fascinating case-study for reception studies not least because of his uniquely extensive and diverse afterlife. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plutarch offers the first comprehensive analysis of Plutarch’s rich reception history from the Roman Imperial period through Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the Renaissance, Enlightenment and the modern era. The thirty-seven chapters that make up this volume, written by a remarkable line-up of experts, explore the appreciation, contestation and creative appropriation of Plutarch himself, his thought and work in the history of literature across various cultures and intellectual traditions in Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East.
