Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Preface; The dating of the so-called Paradeisos; Review of P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin. Notes et remarques sur enseignement et culture à Byzance des origines au Xe siècle; The iconoclast iambic verses on the Chalke; Peter of Sicily, his Historia and the Archbishop of Bulgaria; A Byzantine depiction of ancient Athens; Photios on the mosaic in the apse of Hagia Sophia; 'Contributions open to further illuminating discussion'; ’Graphais e glyphais’: on the fragment of Hypatios of Ephesos on images, with an appendix on the Dialogue with a Jew by Leontios of Neapolis; ’Interpolations et non-sens indiscutables’: the first poem of the Ptochoprodromika; Artabasdos, Boniface and the three pallia; Classicism in the 8th century? The homily of Patriarch Germanos on the deliverance of Constantinople; The origins of the Byzantine renaissance; A more charitable verdict: review of N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium; Further reflections and inquiries on the origins of the Byzantine renaissance, with a supplement: The Trier Ivory and other uncertainties; Interpretation of the Bellum Avaricum and the tomcat ’Mekhlempe’ in three parts; Was bronze a rare metal? The legend of the bull in the Forum Bovis in Parastaseis Ch. 42; Phokas’ raising on the shield; Marginalia to Corippus’ poem In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris; How stupid must Zosimos be? Proposals for a new assessment; Badly-ordered thoughts on philhellenism; Index.

About the Author

Paul Speck

Reviews

’Sarolta Takács, who oversaw the translation and edition of the collection published in the series of the Variorum reprints, justly emphasised the significance of the project introducing thought provoking ideas and original scholarly approach of the German Byzantinist to a new public.’ Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique