New trends in the historiography of the Macedonians: the 'case' of Theophanes Continuatus (books I-IV)
Abstract
The name Theophanes Continuatus is conventionally used to refer to a group of 10th-century historiographic texts produced by the scholarly circle of the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetus, who commissioned them, during his reign as sole emperor of Byzantium (945-959). That the historical work in question has long fascinated researchers can be attributed both to the singular context in which it was written coupled with the personality of the historical figure who inspired it, factors which make this a palace historiography with a clear political orientation, but also to its ground-breaking structure, the innovations it introduces into the historiographic genre, and to its literary features. The work has come down to us in a single byzantine manuscript, the Vat.gr 167, which dates from the early 11th c. The long-standing need for a new edition was recently met with the volume by Featherstone and Signes published in the CFHB series; however, it proved infeasible to deal fully with t ...
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