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The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, 28) by Jesse W. Torgerson , Wesleyan University

The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, 28) by Jesse W. Torgerson , Wesleyan University

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ISBN: 9789004501690

Brill, 28 July 2022

Hardcover, 476 pages

Why the ninth-century Chronographia of George and Theophanes so dominated the writing of history in Greek has long puzzled scholars. This revisionist study frames the work as an early medieval society’s re-thinking of the relationship between past and present in order to navigate its imminent political crises.