Christian Chronicles and Byzantine History: 5th-6th CenturiesVariorum
Brian Croke
ISBN: 086078343X
price: $122.95 hardcover
This book reflects a preoccupation with analyzing the early
Byzantine chronicles, above all the very different works of
Marcellinus and Malalas, both as historiographical artifacts and
as testimony for the years they cover. Many of the studies here
demonstrate that, when set in context, even the briefest
chronicle entry may shed light on some aspect of early Byzantine
politics, topography or prosopography. Particular themes are the
development of the Christian chronicle as a form of presenting
the past, the ceremonial life of Constantinople, and the
relations between the Roman government and the tribes invading
the Balkans.
Contents: Preface; Chronicles: The Originality of Eusebius'
Chronicle; Porphyry's Anti-Christian Chronology; The Origins of
the Christian World Chronicle; City Chronicles of Late Antiquity;
Marcellinum, Jordanes and Cassiodorus: A.D. 476: The Manufacture
of a Turning Point; Cassiodorus and the Getica of Jordanes;
Historiographical Problems: Dating Theodoret's Church History and
Commentary on the Psalms; The Date and Circumstances of Marcian's
Decease; Two Early Byzantine Earthquakes and their Liturgical
Commemoration; Basiliscus the Boy Emperor; Procopius and Dara;
Balkan Encounters: Evidence for the Hun Invasion of Thrace in
A.D. 422; Anatolius and Nomus: Envoys to Attila; The Context and
Date of Priscus Fragment 6; Hormisdas and the Late Roman Walls of
Thessalonika; Thessalonika's Early Byzantine Palaces; The Date of
the "Anastasian Long Wall" in Thrace; Mundo the Gepid:
From Freebooter to Roman General; Justinian's Bulgar Victory
Celebration; Addenda; Index.
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