Contribución al problema de la cronología y las fuentes de la Vita Basilii
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Patricia Varona
Abstract
One of the main trends of research on the Vita Basilii has been focused on the connections between this text and the rest of the historical work into which it was subsumed, the so-called Continuation of Theophanes. This research has significant implications for the chronology and the sources of the Vita, and for its function and meaning as well. Even if the circumstances of composition of both texts are far from being clear, and the same can be said of its authorship and most of its sources, a close examination of a set of key passages allows to throw some light on the chronology and the sources of the Vita. This passages can be found in the regnum Michaelis of the Continuation and in the Vita and refer to episodes with particular importance, as they constitute the core of the psógos of Michael III. This approach will show that the Vita Basilii can by no means be considered prior to the books I–IV of the Continuation and, therefore, will justify a reformulation of the current chronological hypothesis. In connection with the function and meaning of the Vita, it allows to interpret it as a stylistic reworking which pursued to be the last word of the emperor on the deeds of his dubious grandfather and, in fact, on the historical mission of the Macedonian dynasty.
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- Siglenverzeichnis
- Autorenverzeichnis
- Die Ethnogenese der seldschukischen Türken im Urteil christlicher Geschichtsschreiber des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts
- La chronique familiale du Parisinus gr. 1601 et l'identité de son rédacteur
- A missing Vatican manuscript page at Oxford Holobolus' commentary on the Ara Ionica and the Securis
- Beiträge zur frühbyzantinischen Profanarchitektur aus Hadrianupolis – Blütezeit unter Kaiser Iustinian I
- Organization and modus operandi of the Byzantine salt monopoly
- From narrative historiography to historical biography. New trends in Byzantine historical writing in the 10th–11th centuries
- Hacia la identificación de la biblioteca y la mano de Demetrio Ducas
- Die Episode des Palamedes in den byzantinischen Progymnasmata
- Contribución al problema de la cronología y las fuentes de la Vita Basilii
- Abteilung
- Bibliographische Notizen und Mitteilungen
