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The Hellenistic Enkyklios Paideia (‘Circular Education’) in the Syriac World: The Role of Rhetoric in Shaping the ‘Classic’
* Event open to all, but registration is essential – to register follow this link*
Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Dili Yan’ge Tradition and its Uses in Tang and Song China
*Postponed* Aristocratic Book Patronage in the Twelfth Century
*The meeting has been postponed until the next academic year*
From Homer to Digenis Akritis: Epics on the Byzantine Frontier
In conjunction with the Classical Association of Scotland (Edinburgh and South-East Centre)
This is a public online event, but it requires registration.
Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and Middle Period China: Revivals and Reinventions in Visual and Intellectual Culture
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Research Meeting on Song China
Patricia Ebrey: The Resilience of Chinese Empires: How the Song Survived the Jurchen Invasion
Anna Shields: Rewriting the Tang Dynasty Poetic Past: Epistemic Hybridity in the Records of Events Concerning Tang Poetry 唐詩紀事
History (and the Frontier) as Literature in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Historical Accounts
Approaching ‘history as literature’ has allowed byzantinists to pinpoint and examine the narrative conventions (largely derived from a common rhetorical education) that shaped Byzantine narratives of the past. ... This paper discusses different approaches to the frontier space conveyed in the eleventh-century Byzantine historical accounts of Michael Psellos, Michael Attaleiates, and John Skylitzes.
