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Friday 14th SeptemberCollège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine

(Lévi-Strauss Room)

900 - 910 Opening: Vincent Déroche (Directeur adjoint, Centre d’Histoireet Civilisation de Byzance / CNRS )

Session 1. Theophanes and George Syncellus

Chair: Roger Scott (University of Melbourne)

910 - 950 Warren Treadgold (NEH Professor of Byzantine Studies, St Louis University) “A Conjectural Biography of George Syncellus”

950 - 1030 Andrzej Kompa (Uniwersytet Łódzki ) “Gnesioi philoi: George Syncellus, Theophanes the Confessor

and their oeuvre”

1030 - 1110 Jesse Torgerson (University of California, Berkeley) “From many authors, one chronicle? The manuscripts of the

Chronicles of Synkellos and Theophanes”

1110 - 1130 Break

Session 2. Transmission, transcription, translation

Chair: Federico Montinaro (EPHE)

1130 - 1210 Filippo Ronconi (EHESS) « La première circulation du texte de Théophane : notes

paléographiques et codicologiques sur les plus anciens manuscrits de la Chronique »

1210 - 1250 Federico Montinaro (EPHE) “Anastasius’ Greek manuscript”

1250 - 1400 Lunch

1400 - 1440 Bronwen Neil (Australian Catholic University) “Anastasius’ transmission of the Arab conquest according

to Theophanes”

1440 - 1520 Juan Signes Codoñer (Universidad de Valladolid ) “Theophanes and Constantine VII”

Session 3. Theophanes and early Byzantine history

Chair: James Howard-Johnston (Univerisity of Oxford )

1520 - 1600 Roger Scott (University of Melbourne) “The first half of Theophanes’ Chronicle”

1600 - 1620 Break

1620 - 1700 Irina Tamarkina (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Pulcheria and relics in the Chronicle of Theophanes:

rewriting the past and arguing the present”

1700 - 1740 Geoffrey Greatrex (University of Ottawa) « Théophane et ses sources sur la guerre perse d’Anastase Ier

(502-506) »

1740 - 1820 Bernard Pouderon (Université de Tours) « Théophane, témoin de l’Épitomè, de Théodore le Lecteur

ou de Jean Diacrinoménos ? »

1820 - 1900 Salvatore Cosentino (Università di Bologna) « La Chronographie de Théophane et sa perception du domaine

économique »

1900 Reception

Saturday 15th SeptemberSorbonne, 17 rue Victor Cousin

(Room D 665)

Session 4. Theophanes’ sources for the Dark Age

Chair: Vivien Prigent (CNRS)

830 - 910 Marek Jankowiak (Newton International Fellow, Oriental InstituteWolfson College, University of Oxford )

“Theophanes, historian of the Dark Age”

910 - 950 Mikaël Nichanian (Conservateur d’Etat, Bibliothèque Nationale de France) « La place de Théophane dans l’historiographie des

premières victoires arabes sur Byzance (634-636) »

950 - 1010 Break

Session 5. Around Theophilus of Edessa

Chair: André Binggeli (Responsable de la Section grecque, IRHT / CNRS)

1010 - 1050 Robert Hoyland (Oriental Institute / Wolfson College, University of Oxford ) “Theophilus of Edessa as Theophanes’ Oriental source”

1050 - 1130 Muriel Debié (CNRS / IRHT) « Théophile d’Edesse, le fantôme de l’historiographie syriaque »

1130 - 1210 Maria Conterno (Padova) “Theophilus, the more likely candidate? Towards a reappraisal

of the question of Theophanes’ Oriental Source(s) ”

1210 - 1300 Lunch

Session 6. Theophanes and recent history

Chair: Béatrice Caseau (Université de Paris - Sorbonne)Jean-Claude Cheynet (Directeur, UMR Orient-Méditerranée /

Université de Paris - Sorbonne)

1300 - 1340 Marie-France Auzépy (Professeur émérite, Université de Paris VIII ) « La Chronique, viie-ixe siècles : une histoire de l’Église ? »

1340 - 1420 Lee Mordechai (Princeton University) “The last century of Theophanes’ Chronicle: A different

approach”

1420 - 1500 Dmitry Afinogenov (Московский государственный университет) “Style, structure and authorship of the hypothetical source of

Theophanes for the reigns of Leo III and Constantine V”

1500 - 1520 Break

1520 - 1600 James Howard-Johnston (Emeritus Fellow, Corpus Christi College,Univerisity of Oxford )

“Theophanes on the recent past: the crisis of 781 and its antecedents”

1600 - 1640 Federico Montinaro (EPHE) “The Chronicle on Charlemagne’s coronation: when and

whence?”

1640 - 1720 Panos Sophoulis (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) “The Chronicle of Theophanes and the Byzantine-Bulgar

wars of the early ninth century”

1720 - 1800 Conclusions, general discussion

1900 Dinner

The Chronicle of Theophanes: sources, composition and transmissionAn international workshop

Paris, 14th-15th September 2012

organised byMarek Jankowiak, Newton Fellow, Oxford, and Federico Montinaro, EPHE, Paris

Institut d’études byzantines, Collège de France  •  UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée  •  Université de Paris – Sorbonne

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