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The main innovative (and challenging!) idea of the book can be formulated as follows: the tradition of Byzantine historical writings is unique, uniform and diverse at the same time. It is unique because it has a lot of characteristics of its own, being at the same time remote from the classicism, i.e. the imitation of the works of the Classical Greek historiography. (...) Because of its small size and clear style the book is perfectly suited to be used as a guide to the world of the Byzantine historiography. The book contains bibliographical references needed in order to get an overview of the material. Dariya Rafiyenko, H-Soz-u-Kult, 05.11.2015 .. . Historical Writing in Byzantium offers an interesting introduction for non-specialists, along with some thought-provoking ideas for specialists. Warren Treadgold, sehepunkte 15 (2015), Nr. 7-8

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James (J.D.) Howard-Johnston (born in 1942) is Emeritus Fellow at the Corpus Christi College, Oxford and University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies. His research interests include the history of East Rome/Byzantium between 500-1100 AD, East Roman-Byzantine historiography, institutional history and the history of international relations and diplomacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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