Julian the Apostate in Byzantine culture /
Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363. In the Byzantine (that is, the eastern Roman) empire, the figure of Julian aroused conflicting reactions: antipathy towards his apostasy but also admiration for his accomplishments, particularly as an author writing in Greek. Ju...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Series: | Routledge research in Byzantine studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Augusto Guida
- Son of the devil and sophist of wickedness : the black legend
- A sulphurous and versatile emperor
- The reinvention of Julian by chroniclers, historians, and hagiographers
- The blood of the innocent : the victims of a sovereign who is "deceitful, capable of anything, and skilled in doing evil"
- The blood of innocents : "a great persecution against the Christians"
- Even the dead against Julian
- "Constantine, the son of a prostitute, recognized the true God and you abandon him?" Telescoping Julian and Constantine
- Julian in Byzantine liturgical books, a synthesis of the early medieval Byzantine hagiographical tradition
- Between old stories and new imaginative reconstructions : a glance before the decline of Byzantium
- Towards the end : a new beginning, the regret of beginnings
- The end : beyond Byzantium.