Ihor S. evc enko Livres

This collection features a variety of scholarly contributions exploring Byzantine history, literature, and culture. It opens with a preface by Sevcenko and a list of Cyril Mango's publications. Bouras reevaluates the Daphni Monastic Complex, while Boyd discusses a copper plaque dedicated to St. Hermolaos. Cameron examines the figures of Basilius, Mavortius, and Asterius, and Canart delves into two manuscripts related to the "chypriote bouclée." Cutler critiques recent commentary on Rosette Caskets, and Dagron and Callot provide insights into Isaurian builders and three sites near Silifke. Durliat presents the epitaph of Pope Honorius, and von Falkenhausen discusses the regency of Countess Adelasia del Vasto in Calabria and Sicily. Feissel analyzes two epigrams from Apamene, while Flusin reflects on the emperor's role in the return of Gregory of Nazianze's relics. Foss addresses Byzantine responses to Turkish attacks in Asia Minor, and Guillou studies Byzantine inscriptions in Italy. Hunger comments on "Aristophanes," and Hutter presents on Theodorupolis. Jeffreys explores the literary and social context of mid-twelfth-century Constantinople, while Kazhdan and Sherry discuss anonymous miracles of St. Artemios. Lefort recounts the brief history of young Bragadin, and Maltezou investigates Byzantine legends in Venetian Crete. Obolensky reflects on Toynbee's views on Byzantium, and Oikonomides examines vassalage in a Byzantine apa

The life of Emperor Basil I (867–886), the founder of the Macedonian Dynasty, is the only extant secular biography in Byzantine literature; in its importance and as an instance of the genre it is comparable to Einhard’s Vita Caroli Magni. Composed in the circle of scholars around Basil’s grandson Constantine VII Prophyrogennitos and at his instigation as early as 957 and 959, the Vita Basilii is one of the main sources for the cultural and political history of Byzantium and its neighbours in the 9th and 10th centuries. Previous editions (whether from the 17th or 19th centuries) were based on secondary manuscripts; they are not reliable, because of their arbitrary conjectures and a large number of unjustified additions from a parallel source. The present edition is based on Vaticanus gr. 167, the source of all extant manuscripts, and the insertions made by the earlier editors are removed. In producing the new text, the editor also had access to the draft edition he rediscovered which the famous Byzantinist Karl de Boor prepared around 1903.