Browsing by Author "Kennedy, Scott"
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The Arab conquestin Byzantine historical memory: The long view
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022-04-12)In recent decades, historians of the Arab conquest have increasingly turned away from positivist reconstructions of the events of the Arab conquest. Through thematic analysis of conquest narratives, scholars have illustrated ... -
Bessarion's date of birth: A new assessment of the evidence
(De Gruyter, 2018)The cardinal Bessarion was a foremost figure of the Italian Renaissance and late Byzantium. However, some of the details of his life are not yet securely established, especially his date of birth. Over the last century, ... -
A classic dethroned: the decline and fall of thucydides in middle byzantium
(Duke University, 2018)During the eighth to thirteenth centuries Thucydides lost his prominence in literary culture, as rhetorical schools and historiography rendered him rhetorically, politically, and culturally problematic. -
Michael Panaretos in context: a historiographical study of the chronicle on the emperors of Trebizond
(De Gruyter, 2019)It has often been said it would be impossible to write the history of the empire of Trebizond (1204-1461) without the terse and often frustratingly laconic chronicle of the Grand Komnenoi by the protonotarios of Alexios ... -
The Siren's song: Senophon's Anabasis in Byzantium
(De Gruyter, 2022-10-24)Frequently known as the Attic bee or the Siren’s song, Xenophon and his Anabasis had an enduring influence in the Eastern Roman empire. Whereas a number of popular ancient authors such as Callimachus and Menander lost their ... -
A tale of two skeletons? Greco-Turkish cultural memory, sacred space, and the mystery of the identity of the occupants of a now lost ciborium Byzantine tomb at Trebizond
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021-04-22)The body of almost every Roman or Byzantine emperor has been lost.This piece draws attention to two skeletons, recovered from a Muslim türbe at Trabzon during World War I by the Russian excavator Feodor Uspensky. Using ... -
Winter is coming: the barbarization of Roman leaders in imperial panegyrics from 446-468 A.D
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)The Ostrogothic king Theoderic I (a.d. 475–526) drew on his experience of ruling post-imperial Italy when he famously remarked that ‘The poor Roman imitates the Goth and the rich Goth imitates the Roman’. Written well after ...
