Reading John of Ephesus via Procopius of Caesarea? Revisiting the Comparison of Their Accounts of the Justinianic PlagueReligion and TheologySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NTRJII4U/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Chris L.de WetReading John of Ephesus via Procopius of Caesarea? Revisiting the Comparison of Their Accounts of the Justinianic Plaguehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NTRJII4Uhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/NTRJII4Uhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/NTRJII4UReligion and Theology30:3-42023359-379The purpose of this article is to revisit the comparison between the accounts of the Justinianic plague of 541–750 CE, the first recorded pandemic of bubonic plague, by John of Ephesus and Procopius of Caesarea, as done by the scholar of Byzantine history, Anthony Kaldellis, in a 2007 publication. In the article, I critique some of Kaldellis’s main points of comparison, and then by approaching plague as a discourse (in the Foucaultian sense), I attempt to provide a more nuanced reading and comparison of the individual accounts, and of ancient plague discourse more generally.
Wet, Chris L. de. “Reading John of Ephesus via Procopius of Caesarea? Revisiting the Comparison of Their Accounts of the Justinianic Plague.” Religion and Theology 30:3-4 (2023): 359–79. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-bja10062.
Chris L. de Wet, Reading John of Ephesus via Procopius of Caesarea? Revisiting the Comparison of Their Accounts of the Justinianic Plague,Religion and Theology 30:3-4 (2023): 359–79, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-bja10062.