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- Title
Classified knowledge: the epistemology of statuary in the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai.
- Authors
Anderson, Benjamin
- Abstract
The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai is a dossier of materials composed throughout the eighth century by a variety of authors. These materials are unified by their concern with the statues of Constantinople and the prophecies they are understood to embody. The authors are unified by their claim to descent from old Constantinopolitan families and their xenophobic opposition to arrivistes in the imperial service. Thus the Parastaseis asserts a form of knowledge unique to the well-born and essential to the management of the empire. It is an artefact of aristocratic particularism in reaction to the centralizing efforts of the eighth-century emperors.
- Subjects
STATUTES; BYZANTINE law; GREEK manuscripts; HISTORY of the theory of knowledge; XENOPHOBIA; ARISTOCRACY (Social class); BYZANTINE Empire, 527-1081; BYZANTINE Empire -- Politics &; government; BYZANTINE civilization -- 527-1081; BYZANTINE Empire
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2011, Vol 35, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/030701311X12906801091476