The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes the ends of time in ninth-century Constantinople

"The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. This interdisciplinary study draws on new manuscript evidence to finally...

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adam_text Contents Acknowledgements ix List of Figures and Tables xii Abbreviations xiv Two Notes on the Text xvi I Introduction: Reading the Chronographia on Its Own Terms i i Reconstructing Authors or Re-Reading Manuscripts? A New Approach 3 2 Essential Terms and Their Implications for Reading 12 3 The Chronographia s Invective against Eusebius as Its Claim to Auctorltas 17 4 The Place of the Chronographia in Byzantine Chronography 5 The Argument of This Book 36 30 PART 1 The Argument of the Chronographia 1 Text and Manuscripts: The Imperial Logic of the Chronographia 47 1 The Ninth-Century Form of the Chronographia 48 2 The Structure of the Text: am 5434 as the Beginning of a New Era 52 3 Time’s Order: A Chronology of Emperors or of Universal Years? 56 4 How the Dating Systems Work in Practice 61 5 The Imperial Time of the Chronographia 73 2 Author: The Synkeiios and His Imperial Critique 78 1 The Significance of George’s Personal History for Reading the Chronographia 79 2 What Was a synkeiios in ca. 800? 84 3 The synkelloi of the Chronographia and the Revolt of am 6300 (ad 808) 97 4 The Associates of the Synkeiios in the Revolt of ad 808 104 5 The Synkeiios’ Imperial Critique 111 3 Thesis: The First-Created Day 114 1 What Did the First-Created Day Mean? A Reliable Chronology of Empire 115 .ς Հ· - VI CONTENTS շ 3 4 5 Theological Truth in the Chronological Paradox of the First-Created Day 123 Typology and Chronology: The Past Fulfilled in the Present 136 The First-Created Day and the Present Age 141 The Thesis of the First Created Day: Chronology and Typology 145 4 Reader: The Invitation of the Preface of Theophanes 149 1 The Preface·. From Authorship to Readership 150 2 A Conceptual Map of the Preface 156 3 George as Author and Theophanes as His Reader 158 4 Theophanes, Author of “the Same Chronography,” and His Reader 166 5 The Invitation of the Preface 174 Appendix: Preface of Theophanes as in Wake Greek 5, Collated with VG 155 175 PART 2 The Imperial Types of the Chronicle 5 Imperial Antitypes: Progenitors, Successors, and Greed 181 1 The Imperial Antitype: The Greedy Emperor 183 2 The Progenitor-Successor Type: Constantine-Constantius 187 3 The Corruption of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Herakleios-Constans 201 4 The Antitype of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Leo 111 to Constantine v 211 5 Interpreting the Antitypes in the Reader’s Present 228 6 Imperial Prototypes: Mothers, Sons, and Repentance 231 1 The Fulfillment of Early Rulers’ Virtues: Constantine 1 with Helena 232 2 The Paradigm of Good Rule: Theodosios П with Pulcheria 238 3 Irene and Constantine vi : From a Holy Beginning to a Failed Joint Reign 249 4 From Irene the Sinner to Irene the Repentant 256 5 Irene the Repentant Martyr 264 6 Mothers, Sons, and Repentance 270 VII CONTENTS 7 Nikephoros the All-Devourer 272 1 The Transition from Irene to Nikephoros: AM 6295-6296 (ad 802-804) 274 2 Nikephoros’ Failures and a Growing Opposition: AM 6297-6301 (ad 804-809) 277 3 The Ten Evils of Nikephoros i: An Overview 281 4 The First Five Evils: The Evils of Impiety 286 5 The Last Five Evils: The Evils of Greed 294 6 The Parable of the Keroullarios and the All-Devourer: A Typological Reading 301 7 The First End(ing) of the Chronographia 310 PART 3 The Ends of the Chronographia 8 AD 815 and the End of History 317 1 Who Was against Nikephoros? The Faction behind the Chronographia Project 318 2 Who Was for Leo v? The Entries for AM 6303-6305 331 3 AM 6303-6305 and the Community of the Chronographia 4 The Second End(ing) of the Chronographia 357 9 The Past’s Future: The Chronographia Project in the Mid-Ninth Century 362 1 Dating the Ninth-Century Recensions of the Chronographia 2 The Papal-Carolingian Excursus 367 3 The Chronographia and the Triumph of Orthodoxy: AD 843-847 377 4 Writing Time in the Early Middle Ages 389 Conclusion: Writing Time for an End 1 The Past Study 399 2 The Present Discourse 404 3 An End for the Future 411 395 Bibliography 415 Index 446 Modern Authors 446 Ancient and Medieval Texts and Authors Named Entities and Subjects 449 447 349 365
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