Summary
Cyril Mango: Byzantine literature as a crooked mirror
Cyril Mango, British Byzantologist of Russian-Greek origin (b. 1928 in Constantinople), is one of the most versatile living Byzantologists. His studies include Byzantine architecture, art, history, literature. In this introductory lecture, held in 1974 in Oxford, he gives key instructions for decoding Byzantine texts, intended primarily for historians. In an environment where parahistoriography has flourished for the period of national history since "before Adam", Mango's guidelines for accessing data from late antique and Byzantine sources are all the more important and relevant.
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