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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past

Written by András Németh

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353 pages, about 7 hours of reading

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Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

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