M. V. Bibikov’s monograph “Historical Literature of Byzantium” is a systematic description and analysis of the evolution of historical ideas of Byzantine authors throughout the “Byzantine millennium”. The scientist analyzes changes in the space-time orientations of the medieval Greeks, reflected on the pages of monumental historiographical works, in chronicles, memoirs, and other texts of similar genres. For all those interested in Byzantine history and culture.

Contents: Introduction. The creative world of Byzantine literature (Byzantine literary criticism: traditions and modernity)

Early Byzantine historical literatureLate antique historical prose (IV–V centuries)Church historiansProcopius and the formation of early medieval principles of Byzantine historiography

Development of classical historical thought periodChronography: Theophanes and his followers historiography of the era of “Byzantine encyclopedism”Historical poetry of the era of “great battles”On the problem of the historicism of Byzantine hagiographyMichael Psellus and his contemporariesHistorical prose of the Comnenian eraHistorical poetry and rhetoric of the Comnenian eraByzantine historical metaphrasticsMemoir literature and Nikita Choiat

Historical prose of late Byzantium (XIII-XV centuries)Byzantine historicism of the period of the Nicaean EmpireItalo-Byzantine poetsHumanistic aspects of the historical prose of Palaeologian ByzantiumHistorical prose of the era of the Ottoman conquest and the fall of Byzantium

Conclusion. On the problem of medieval historicism

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