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edited by John Burke
with Ursula Betka, Penelope Buckley,
Kathleen Hay, Roger Scott & Andrew Stephenson

Byzantina Australiensia vol. 16 (Melbourne 2006)

ISBN: 1 876503 24 6; 978 1 876503 24 6; ISSN: 0725-3079

41 papers, 650 pages including 105 illustrations

Australasian price: $75 including postage
All other countries: $Aus90 including postage (approximately $US68, €54 and £36 but payment must be made in Australian dollars)

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CONTENTS

Narrative in Historians, Chronicles & Fiction
 
Margaret Mullett Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction
Roger Scott Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses
Ingela Nilsson To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium
Brian Croke Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading
Bronwen Neil Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor
Elizabeth McCartney The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos'Chronographia
Penelope Buckley War and Peace in the Alexiad
Theoni Sklavos Moralising History: The Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes
Emma Strugnell The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum
John Burke The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment
Andrew Gillett The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return
Eamon H.R. Kelly From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity
Nick Nicholas How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative
Vicky Panayotopoulou-Doulavera Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople
Dean Sakel A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans

Narrative in Byzantine Art
 
Felicity Harley The Narration of Christ's Passion in Early Christian Art
Matthew Martin Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt
Julia Kelly The Column of Arcadius: Reflections of a Roman Narrative Tradition
Debbie Del Frate Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia
Balsa Djuric Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviska in Prizren
Nira Stone Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration
Joan Barclay Lloyd Sources for the Story of the Creation in the Mosaics of Sicily and Venice
Ursula Betka Icon and Narrative: Memorializing Saint Francis in Assisi
Margaret Manion Authentication, Theology and Narrative in the Gospel Book of Theophanes
Nancy P. Sevcenko Spiritual Progression in the Canon Tables of the Melbourne Gospels

Christian Narrative and Eschatology
 
Eric Osborn Clement of Alexandria - From Prophecy to Plato
John Wortley The 'Sacred Remains' of Constantine and Helena
Bill Leadbetter A Byzantine Narrative of the Future and the Antecedents of the Last World Emperor
Michael Champion Kosmas Indikopleustes and Narratives in Sixth-century Liturgy and History
Annamma Varghese Kaiserkritik in Two Kontakia of Romanos
Andrei Timotin Byzantine Visionary Accounts of the Other World: A Reconsideration
Peter A.L. Hill A Ninth Century Passion Harmony

Architecture, Archaeology, Economy and Ta Exotika
 
Geoffrey Nathan 'Pothos tes Philoktistou': Anicia Juliana's Architectural Narratology
Nigel Westbrook Spoliation and Imitation: Continuity and Radical Disjunction in Byzantine Palatine Architecture
Hartmut Ziche Historians and the Economy: Zosimos and Prokopios on Fifth- and Sixth- Century Economic Development
Tamara Lewit Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-century Eastern Mediterranean
Timothy E. Gregory Narrative of the Byzantine Landscape
Jialing Xu Narratives of the Roman-Byzantine World in Ancient Chinese Sources
Chen Zhi-Qiang Narrative Materials about the Byzantines in Chinese Sources
Robert Mihajlovski Three Byzantine Lead Seals from Devolgrad (Ancient Audaristos) near Stobi
Bob Priestley The Varangian Guard


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