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By Elena N. Boeck

lavish, illustrated histories faced and contested the Byzantine version of empire. The Madrid Skylitzes was once created on the courtroom of Roger II of Sicily within the mid-twelfth century. The Vatican Manasses was once produced for Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria within the mid-fourteenth century. via shut research of ways each one chronicle was once methodically manipulated, this examine argues that Byzantine historical past was once selectively re-imagined to fit the pursuits of outsiders. The Madrid Skylitzes foregrounds regicides, rebellions, and palace intrigue so that it will subvert the divinely ordained photo of order that Byzantine rulers most well liked to venture. The Vatican Manasses offers Byzantium as a platform for the accession of Ivan Alexander to the throne of the 3rd Rome, the final and ultimate world-empire. Imagining the Byzantine previous demonstrates how specific visions of empire generated diverging types of Byzantium's previous within the aftermath of the Crusades.

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