The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?

346 Pages·2017·55.371 MB·English

by  Pauline Allen, Elizabeth Jeffreys (eds.)

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
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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
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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