Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity

358 Pages·2015·3.11 MB·English

by  Geoffrey Greatrex

Shifting genreS in Late antiquity
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Shifting genres in Late antiquity
Edited by
geoffrey greatrex
University of Ottawa, Canada
hugh eLton
Trent University, Canada
with the assistance of
LucaS McMahon
Central European University, Budapest
© geoffrey greatrex and hugh elton 2015
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Shifting genres in late antiquity / edited by geoffrey greatrex and hugh elton, with the
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includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-4348-9 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-4349-6 (ebook) -- ISBN
978-1-4724-4350-2 (ePuB) 1. classical literature--history and criticism. 2. christian
literature, early--history and criticism. 3. Literary form--history--to 1500. 4. art
genres--history--to 1500. 5. Social change--history--to 1500. 6. christianity and
literature--history--to 1500. 7. rome--intellectual life. 8. Mediterranean region
--intellectual life. 9. rome--antiquities. 10. Mediterranean region--antiquities. i.
greatrex, geoffrey. ii. elton, hugh. iii. McMahon, Lucas.
Pa3014.L49S45 2014
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2014015628
ISBN 9781472443489 (hbk)
ISBN 9781472443496 (ebk – PDF)
ISBN 9781472443502 (ebk – ePUB)
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction by Geoffrey Greatrex 1
PART I: HomIleTIcs And dIsPuTATIon
1 Medicine in Transition: Christian Adaptation in the Later
Fourth-Century East 11
Wendy Mayer
2 Le De obitu Theodosii d’Ambroise (395) : Une refonte des
genres littéraires dans le creuset du sermon politique 27
Tiphaine Moreau
3 Jerome’s De viris illustribus and New Genres for Christian
Disputation in Late Antiquity 41
Colin Whiting
4 The Transformation of Heresiology in the Panarion of
Epiphanius of Cyprus 53
Young Richard Kim
PART II: ecclesIAsTIcAl GenRes
5 Adapter le genre du bréviaire plutôt qu’écrire une histoire
ecclésiastique? Enquête sur le choix historiographique de
Liberatus de Carthage 69
Philippe Blaudeau
6 The Emergence of Papal Decretals: The Evidence of Zosimus
of Rome 81
Geoffrey D. Dunn
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7 Collectio Avellana and the Unspoken Ostrogoths: Historical
Reconstruction in the Sixth Century 93
Dana Iuliana Viezure
8 Éléments apologétiques chez Victor de Vita : exemple d’un genre
littéraire en transition 105
Éric Fournier
9 Diabolical Motivations: The Devil in Ecclesiastical Histories
from Eusebius to Evagrius 119
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
PART III: VIsuAl GenRes
10 Producing Distinction: Aristocratic and Imperial Representation
in the Constantinian Age 135
Mariana Bodnaruk
11 Declaring Victory, Concealing Defeat? Continuity and Change in
Imperial Coinage of the Roman West, c.383–c.408 157
Christopher Doyle
12 The Importance of Being Stilicho: Diptychs as a Genre 173
Alice Christ
PART IV: PRocoPIus And lITeRATuRe In THe sIxTH-cenTuRy
eAsTeRn emPIRe
13 Power, Taste and the Outsider: Procopius and the Buildings
Revisited 191
Federico Montinaro
14 Belisarius’ Second Occupation of Rome and Pericles’
Last Speech 207
Charles Pazdernik
15 Technical Writing, Genre and Aesthetic in Procopius 219
Elodie Turquois
16 A Justinianic Debate across Genres on the State of the Roman
Republic 233
Marion Kruse
Contents vii
PART V: TecHnIcAl GenRes
17 The Genre and Purpose of Military Manuals in Late Antiquity 249
Conor Whately
18 Les contrats de travail dans l’Antiquité tardive : évolution du
droit, évolution d’un genre? 263
Christel Freu
19 Natio, Gens, Provincialis and Civis: Geographical Terminology
and Personal Identity in Late Antiquity 277
Ralph W. Mathisen
PART VI: oTHeR lITeRARy GenRes
20 The Rhetoric of Varietas and Epistolary Encyclopedism in the
Variae of Cassiodorus 289
Shane Bjornlie
21 Byzantine World Chronicles: Identities of Genre 305
Sergei Mariev
22 Himerius and the Personalization of the Monody 319
Edward Watts
Index Locorum 325
Index 337
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List of Figures
10.1 Porphyry statue of an armoured emperor in chlamys (from
Alexandria) (courtesy of the Skulpturensammlung und Museum
für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 144
10.2 Porphyry statue of an emperor in chlamys (from Alexandria)
(courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) 145
10.3 Porphyry group of armoured Tetrarchs (from Constantinople)
(photograph by author) 147
10.4 Augustus, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. no. I 60
(photograph by author, courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches
Museum) 150
10.5 Constantine, Rome, Musei Capitolini, inv. no. MC 1072/S
(courtesy of Archivio fotografico dei Musei Capitolini) 151
10.6 Arch of Constantine, Rome. Ingressus (photograph by author) 153
10.7 Arch of Constantine, Rome. Oratio (photograph by author) 153
10.8 Arch of Constantine, Rome. Largitio (photograph by author) 154
11.1 Quinarius of Augustus (courtesy of ACR Auctions, Auction 8,
Lot 457) 160
11.2 Copper-alloy coin of Constantine I (courtesy of Coinvac, ref.
421016) 160
11.3 Follis of Maxentius (courtesy of benzgemz) 161
11.4 Centenionalis of Vetranio (courtesy of Numismatik Lanz
München) 162
11.5 Steering the ship of state: Copper-alloy coin of Theodosius I,
Antioch mint, 378–83 163
11.6 Solidus of Magnus Maximus (courtesy of Hess-Divo AG, Auction
307, Lot 1790) 163
11.7 Copper-alloy coin of Theodosius I (courtesy of www.cngcoins.com) 164
11.8 Tremissis of Honorius (courtesy of www.cngcoins.com) 165
11.9 Solidus of Constantine II (courtesy of www.cngcoins.com) 167
11.10 Solidus of Constantine III (courtesy of Coinvac, ref. 393946) 168
11.11 Solidus of Honorius (courtesy of NAC AG, Auction 75,
Lot 370) 170