Studies in John Malalas

Edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys with Brian Croke and Roger Scott

Byzantina Australiensia vol. 6 (Sydney 1990)

ISBN: 0 9593626 5 7; ISSN: 0725-3079

19 papers; xxxvii, 370 p.

CONTENTS

Brian Croke, Malalas, the Man and his Work

Byzantine Chronicle Writing

Brian Croke, The Early Development of Byzantine Chronicles

Roger Scott, The Byzantine Chronicle After Malalas

Elizabeth Jeffreys, Malalas’ World View

Roger Scott, Malalas and His Contemporaries

Ann Moffatt, A Record of Public Buildings and Monuments

Elizabeth Jeffreys, Chronological Structures in the Chronicle

Elizabeth Jeffreys, Malalas’ Sources

Language of Malalas

Alan James, General Survey

Michael Jeffreys, Formulaic Phraseology

Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, Portraits

The Transmission of Malalas’ Chronicle

Elizabeth Jeffreys, Malalas in Greek

Michael Jeffreys, A Lacuna in Theophanes’ Malalas?

Simon Franklin, Malalas in Slavonic

Jane Stevenson, Malalas in Latin

Witold Witakowski, Malalas in Syriac

Brian Croke, The Development of a Critical Text

Brian Croke, Modern Study of Malalas

Conclusion