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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