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The Sixth Century: End or Beginning? Byzantina Australiensia Editorial Board Ken Parry (Macquarie University) Amelia Brown (University of Queensland) Meaghan McEvoy (Macquarie University) Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Monash University) Danijel Dzino (Macquarie University) Wendy Mayer (Australian Lutheran College | University of Divinity) Roger Scott (University of Melbourne) Volume 10 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/byza The Sixth Century: End or Beginning? Edited by Pauline Allen Elizabeth Jeffreys LEIDEN | BOSTON This paperback was originally published as Volume 10 in the series Byzantina Australiensia, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Department of Modern Greek, University of Sydney, Sydney nsw 2006, Australia, Brisbane 1996. Cover illustration: Fol 98v of Cod. Laur. Plut. IX.28, containing the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes, is reproduced on the cover with the kind permission of the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017939790 issn 0725-3079 isbn 978-18-64-20074-4 (paperback, 2017) isbn 978-90-04-34470-9 (e-book, 2017) isbn 1 86420 074 X (paperback, 1996) Copyright 2017 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Εἰ δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀντιπόδων ἐπεξεργαστικώτερον θελήσειέ τις ζητῆσαι, ῥᾳδίως τοὺς γραώδεις μύθους αὐτῶν ἀνακαλύψει. Cosmas Indicopleustes, I,20. ⸪ CONTENTS Plates and Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What? Philip Rousseau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Writing the Reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes Roger Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Procopius and the Samaritans Katherine Adshead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bury, Malalas and the Nika Riot Michael Jeffreys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The Chronicle of John Malalas, Book I: A Commentary Elizabeth Jeffreys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Use of Pagan Mythology in the Christian Empire with Particular Reference to the Dionysiaca of Nonnus Wolfgang Liebeschuetz ..................................... 75 Notes of Christian Epigrams in Book One of the Greek Anthology Barry Baldwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The Reading of Paul the Silentiary Ian Martlew ........................................... 105 Early Monasticism and Ps. Denys Daniel Callam .......................................... 112 Impact of St Sabas: The Legacy of Palestinian Monasticism Kathleen Hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Aspects of Spiritual Direction: The Palestinian Tradition John Chryssavgis ........................................ 126 Junillus Africanus' Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis in its Justinianic Context Michael Maas ......................................... 131 vi The Sixth-Century - End or Beginning? The Silence of the Sources: The Sixth Century and East-Syrian •Antiochene• Exegesis Corrie Molenberg ....................................... 145 Severus of Antioch and the Homily: The End of the Beginning? Pauline Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 The Sixth Century: A Turning-Point/or Byzantine Homiletics? Mary Cunningham ....................................... 176 Through the Tunnel with Leontius of Jerusalem: The Sixth-Century Transformation of Theology Patrick Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Christ's Image versus Christology: Thoughts on the Justinianic Era as Threshold of an Epoch Karl-Heinz Uthemann ..................................... 197 Sixth-Century Art and Architecture in "Old Rome•: End or Beginning? Joan Barclay Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Sixth-Century Ravenna from the Perspective of Abbot Agnellus Ann Moffatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Forming and Transforming Proto-Byzantine Urban Public Space Michael Milojevic ....................................... 247 Byzantium, Planet Earth and the Solar System Paul Farquharson ........................................ 263 Climatic Change in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries? Johannes Koder ......................................... 270 General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

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