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The sixth century, end or beginning? /

The sixth century, end or beginning? / edited by Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys. - 1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : illustrations. - Byzantine Australiensia ; 10 . - Byzantina Australiensia 10. Byzantina Australiensia Online, ISBN: 9789004353220. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Introduction / Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What? / Writing the Reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes / Procopius and the Samaritans / Bury, Malalas and the Nika Riot / The Chronicle of John Malalas, Book I: A Commentary / The Use of Pagan Mythology in the Christian Empire with Particular Reference to the Dionysiaca of Nonnus / Notes of Christian Epigrams in Book One of the Greek Anthology / The Reading of Paul the Silentiary / Early Monasticism and Ps. Denys / Impact of St Sabas: The Legacy of Palestinian Monasticism / Aspects of Spiritual Direction: The Palestinian Tradition / Junillus Africanus' Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis in its Justinianic Context / The Silence of the Sources: The Sixth Century and East-Syrian \'Antiochene\' Exegesis / Severus of Antioch and the Homily: The End of the Beginning? / The Sixth Century: A Turning-Point for Byzantine Homiletics? / Through the Tunnel with Leontius of Jerusalem: The Sixth-Century Transformation of Theology / Christ's Image versus Christology: Thoughts on the Justinianic Era as Threshold of an Epoch / Sixth-Century Art and Architecture in \'Old Rome\': End or Beginning? / Sixth-Century Ravenna from the Perspective of Abbot Agnellus / Forming and Transforming Proto-Byzantine Urban Public Space / Byzantium, Planet Earth and the Solar System / Climatic Change in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries? / General Index / Contributors / Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Philip Rousseau -- Roger Scott -- Katherine Adshead -- Michael Jeffreys -- Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Barry Baldwin -- Ian Martlew -- Daniel Callam -- Kathleen Hay -- John Chryssavgis -- Michael Maas -- Corrie Molenberg -- Pauline Allen -- Mary Cunningham -- Patrick Gray -- Karl-Heinz Uthemann -- Joan Barclay Lloyd -- Ann Moffatt -- Michael Milojević -- Paul Farquharson -- Johannes Koder -- Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys.

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9789004344709

10.1163/9789004344709 DOI


Civilization.


Byzantine Empire--Civilization--To 527.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire--History--To 527.
Byzantine Empire--History--527-1081.


History.

DF553 / .S598 1996

949.502