Reading Michael Psellos

Charles Barber, Ph.D. (1989) Courtauld Institute of Art, London, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on theories of the image in Byzantium including Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm (Princeton U. Press, 2002). David Jenkins, MTS (1990) in Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School and MSLIS (1993) in Library and Information Science, Simmons College, is the Byzantine Studies Librarian at the University of Notre Dame.

Foreword

1. Dealing with the Psellos Corpus: From Allatius to Westerink and the Bibliotheca Teubneriana // John Duffy
2. Imagery in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos // Antony R. Littlewood
3. Michael Psellos in a Hagiographical Landscape: The Life of St. Auxentios and the Encomion of Symeon the Metaphrast // Elizabeth A. Fisher
4. A Twist of Plot: Psellos, Heliodorus and Narratology // Christopher A. McLaren
5. Animated Statues: Aesthetics and Movement // Stratis Papaioannou
6. Living Painting, or the Limits of Pointing? Glancing at Icons with Michael Psellos // Charles Barber
7. Psellos’ Conceptual Precision // David Jenkins
8. The Writing of Dreams: A Note on Psellos’ Funeral Oration for his Mother // Christine Angelidi
9. Attaleiates as a Reader of Psellos // Dimitri Krallis
10. Michael Psellos’ De Daemonibus in the Renaissance // Darin Hayton
11. Thoughts on the Future of Psellos-Studies, with Attention to his Mother’s Encomium // Anthony Kaldellis

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