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1 Introduction Roger Scott Ann Moffatt (Australian National University) List of 11 lustrations xix KEYNOTE PAPERS Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of 1 Fiction Margaret Mullett (The Queen 's University Belfast) Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses 29 Roger Scott (University of Melbourne) NARRATIVE IN HISTORIANS, CHRONICLES & FICTION To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine 47 Historians, and Historians on Byzantium Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University) Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading 59 Brian Crake (Sydney) Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I 71 and Maxim us the Confessor Bronwen Neil (Australian Catholic University) The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia 84 Elizabeth McCartney (University of Melbourne) War and Peace in the Alexiad 92 Penelope Buckley (University of Melbourne) Moralising History: the Synopsis Historiarum of John 110 Skylitzes Theoni Sklavos (University of Melbourne) The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' 120 Synopsis Historiarum Emma Strugnell (University of Melbourne) The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment 137 John Burke (University of Melbourne) ix xv

2 The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No 149 Return Andrew Gillett (Macquarie University) From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's 164 Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity Eamon H.R. Kelly (St Cross College, Oxford) How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: 182 Grafting Narrative Nick Nicholas (University of Melbourne) Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem 193 Conquest of Constantinople Vicky Panayotopoulou-Doulavera (University of New South Wales) A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of 204 the Turkish Sultans Dean Sakel (Bogazigi University) NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART The Narration of Christ's Passion in Early Christian Art 221 Felicity Harley (University of Melbourne) Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, 233 Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt Matthew Martin (National Gallery of Victoria) The Column of Arcadius: Reflections of a Roman 258 Narrative Tradition Julia Kelly (La Trobe University) Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's 266 Cathedral, Aquileia Debbie Del Frate (La Trobe University) Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of 274 the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviska in Prizren Balsa Djiiric (University of Belgrade) Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration 284 Nira Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Sources for the Story of the Creation in the Mosaics of 292 Sicily and Venice Joan Barclay Lloyd (La Trobe University)

3 Icon and Narrative: Memorializing Saint Francis in Assisi 303 Ursula Betka (University of Melbourne) Authentication, Theology and Narrative in the Gospel 320 Book of Theophanes Margaret Manion (University of Melbourne) Spiritual Progression in the Canon Tables of the 334 Melbourne Gospels Nancy P. Sevcenko (South Woodstock) CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE AND ESCHATOLOGY Clement of Alexandria From Prophecy to Plato 344 Eric Osborn (University of Melbourne) The 'Sacred Remains' of Constantine and Helena 351 John Worthy (University of Manitoba) A Byzantine Narrative of the Future and the Antecedents 368 of the Last World Emperor Bill Leadbetter (Edith Cowan University) Kosmas Indikopleustes and Narratives in Sixth-century 383 Liturgy and History Michael Champion (University of Melbourne) Kaiserkritik in Two Kontakia of Romanos 393 Annamma Varghese (University of Melbourne) Byzantine Visionary Accounts of the Other World. A 404 Reconsideration Andrei Timotin (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) A Ninth Century Passion Harmony 421 Peter A.L. Hill (University of South Australia) ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY, ECONOMY AND TAEXOTIKA 'Pothos tes Philoktistou': Anicia Juliana's Architectural 433 Narratology Geoffrey Nathan (University of New South Wales) Spoliation and Imitation: Continuity and Radical 444 Disjunction in Byzantine Palatine Architecture Nigel Westbrook (University of Western Australia)

4 Historians and the Economy: Zosimos and Prokopios on 462 Fifth- and Sixth- Century Economic Development Hartmut Ziche (University of the Antilles and Guyana) Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and 475 Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-century Eastern Mediterranean Tamara Lewit (Trinity College, University of Melbourne) Narrative of the Byzantine Landscape 481 Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio Slate University) Narratives of the Roman-Byzantine World in Ancient 497 Chinese Sources Jialing Xu (Northeast Normal University, Chanehun) Narrative Materials about the Byzantines in Chinese 505 Sources Chen Zhi-Qiang (Nankai University) Three Byzantine Lead Seals from Devolgrad (Ancient 522 Audaristos) near Stobi Robert Mihajlovski (La Trobe University) The Varangian Guard 527 Bob Priestley (University of Melbourne) Illustrations 535 Bibliographical Abbreviations 577 Index 601

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