xvi, 239 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
General characteristics of Byzantine thought and literature -- The Byzantine background -- Agapetus: 'An exposition of heads of advice and counsel' addressed to Justinian I -- A Byzantine dialogue in the platonic manner De scientia politica (?sixth century) -- A novella of Justinian I on the empire and the priesthood -- Johannes Lydus De magistratibus: the career of a Byzantine official and scholar -- Two passages on kingship from the romance Barlaam and Josaphat (?first half of the seventh century) -- A passage from the preface to the Ecloga of Leo III (726) -- John of Damascus on church and state -- Theodore of Studion on church and state -- Passages from legal documents and treatises, secular and ecclesiastical -- Photius -- Philopatris: A dialogue in the style of Lucian, defending the Emperor Nicophorus Phocas and satirizing monks and monastic property -- The Strategicon of Kekaumenos and the De officio regis of Niculitzas -- Psellus -- Michael of Ephesus: A commentary on Aristotle's Politics -- Passages from the fable Stephanites and Ichnelates on kings and their advisers (from the Greek version made circa 1080) -- Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria -- Theophylact's Oratio in Alexium Comnenum, with a passage from the Alexiad of Anna Comnena -- Nicephorus Blemmyds (circa 1200-70): the Andrias Basilikos -- Georgius Acropolites: funeral oration on John III Vatatzes -- Thomas Magister: his two speeches Peri Basileias and Peri Politeias -- Theodorus Metochites: his Miscellanea -- The social revolutionary movement of the Zealots of Thessalonica -- A letter from the Patriarch Antonius to Vasili I, Grand Prince of Russia, on the union of empire and church and the universality of the empire -- Gemistus Plethon -- Appendix: an anonymous address to an unknown king: the oration of Pseudo-Aristides Eis Basilea (possibly a rhetorical excercise by a Byzantine scholar)

Barker, Ernest, Sir, 1874-1960

2023-06-28