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1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables and Maps; Acknowledgements; A Note on Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Imperial Court and Knowledge Production; 1.1 Macedonian Emperors and the Systematisation of Knowledge; 1.2 Constantine VII; 1.3 Basil Lecapenus and the Competing Clans; 1.4 The Byzantine Court's Foreign Policy; Chapter 2 Appropriation of the Past: Theory and Practice of Excerpting Historiography; 2.1 Appropriation in Theory; 2.2 The Proem and the Dedicatory Poem; 2.3 Analysis of the Proem and the Poem |
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2.4 The Choice of Number Fifty-Three2.5 Appropriation in Practice; Chapter 3 Constructing a Research Engine of the Past; 3.1 Collecting Historical Manuscripts; 3.2 Time and Money Behind Textual Production; 3.3 Teamwork from Loose Fascicules: Draft Copies; 3.4 Assembling the Drafts: Deluxe Copies by Single Scribes; 3.5 The Excerptor: A Case Study; Chapter 4 Information Management in Constantine VII's Treatises; 4.1 De Thematibus; 4.2 De Administrando Imperio; 4.3 De Ceremoniis; Chapter 5 Renewal of Historiography under Constantine VII; 5.1 The Shift from Chronicle to Biography |
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5.2 Theophanes Continuatus5.3 Genesius and Leo the Deacon; 5.4 The Use of the Excerpta in the Life of Basil; Chapter 6 Distortion and Expansion of the Past in the Excerpta; 6.1 Preoccupations in the Selection; 6.2 Favoured Periods; 6.3 Preferred Historical Genres; Chapter 7 Classification of the Past in the Excerpta; 7.1 Imperial Biographies; 7.2 Military Topics; 7.3 Diplomatic Relations and Conflict Management; 7.4 Moral and Leisure Reading; 7.5 Historical Epigrams; 7.6 Historical Letters and Speeches; 7.7 Gnomic Statements; Chapter 8 The Reading of the Excerpta; 8.1 A Generalisation Tool |
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8.2 A Multivolume Book of History: Auxiliary Texts8.2.1 Contents, Imperial Topic Titles and Position Numbers; 8.2.2 Reference to Historians; 8.2.3 References to Imperial Topics; 8.2.4 Indices; 8.3 Information Retrieval in the Excerpta; Chapter 9 The Suda: The Lexicographer and the Excerptor; 9.1 The Creation of Suda and the Excerpta; 9.2 Lexical Headwords from the Excerpta; 9.3 Biographical Headwords from the Excerpta; Conclusions; Appendices; A Edition of the Proem and the Poem; A.1 The Proem to ELr; A.2 The Poem Praising Constantine for the Excerpta |
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B The Imperial Manuscripts of the ExcerptaB. 1 Excerpta de Virtutibus et Vitiis; B.2 Excerpta de Sententiis; B.3 Excerpta de Insidiis; B.4 Excerpta de Legationibus; Bibliography; Edited Sources; Secondary Literature; Manuscripts Index; Names Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East, 905-959. Excerpta Constantiniana
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Byzantine Empire -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108542708 |
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9781108529068 |
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1108529062 |
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1108542700 |
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