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The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. Introductory chapters give an overview of panegyrical theory and practice, followed by studies of major writers of the early empire and the anonymous Panegyrici latini . The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are social and political context, the 'hidden agenda', and the impact of Christianity on the pagan tradition of the panegyric, including the portrayal of patriarchs and holy men.

Classical literature --- Politics and literature --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin --- Laudatory poetry, Classical --- Christian literature, Early --- Littérature ancienne --- Politique et littérature --- Discours grecs --- Discours latins --- Poésie élogieuse classique --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Speeches, addresses, etc, Greek --- Power (Social sciences) in literature --- Praise in literature --- Propaganda, Greek --- Propaganda, Roman --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- -Classical literature --- -Laudatory poetry, Classical --- -Politics and literature --- -Power (Social sciences) in literature --- -Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin --- -Latin orations --- Latin speeches --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Roman propaganda --- Greek propaganda --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Classical laudatory poetry --- Classical poetry --- Literature, Classical --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Rhetoric --- Political aspects --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Praise in literature. --- Propaganda, Greek. --- Propaganda, Roman. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Littérature ancienne --- Politique et littérature --- Poésie élogieuse classique --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- -Roman propaganda --- Latin orations --- Ancient rhetoric --- Christian literature, Early. --- Classical literature. --- Laudatory poetry, Classical. --- Politics and literature. --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Rome --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Classical literature - History and criticism --- Politics and literature - Greece --- Speeches, addresses, etc, Greek - History and criticism --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin - History and criticism --- Laudatory poetry, Classical - History and criticism --- Christian literature, Early - History and criticism --- Politics and literature - Rome

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Quelle. --- Chronicon paschale. --- Geschichte 284-628. --- Byzantinisches Reich. --- World history --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome --- Politics and government --- Empire byzantin --- Sources --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire --- Sources. --- World history - Early works to 1800 --- Rome - Politics and government - 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - To 527

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Byzantine Empire --- History --- Empire byzantin --- Histoire

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Apart from a brief sojourn at as a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington in 1968–9, James Howard-Johnston spent his entire academic career at the University of Oxford. After a period as Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church from 1966 to 1971, he was thereafter University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College until his retirement almost forty years later, in 2009. In the mid 2000s he served briefly as interim President of Corpus. From 1972 to 1987 he was also passionately involved in local politics, as an Oxford City Councillor and Oxfordshire County Councillor. With his retirement from politics came a flood of publications which has continued until today.Across his career James has cultivated a number of interests in, for example, the political and military histories of Byzantium, the Eurasian Steppe, and the Sasanian Empire; Byzantine historiography; medieval law and commerce; and, perhaps above all, the history of warfare, and in particular the “world crisis” which dramatically and permanently reordered the Middle East in the course of the seventh century. Readers of James’ bibliography up to 2022, which we include at the beginning of this volume, will perceive the simultaneous cultivation of all these interests, but also a growing preoccupation with the seventh century, which intensified from the 1990s and then culminated in two masterpieces of scholarship produced in his retirement—or, as James would say in typical self-depreciating style, his “defunctitude”. The first, Witnesses to a world crisis, represents a distillation of many years of careful rumination on the diverse sources for seventh-century political history, and a profound reflection on the rise of Islam and the Arab conquests. The second (for which Witnesses is in many ways the prequel), The last great war of antiquity, stands now as the first full history of the final conflict of the Roman and Iranian Empires, a grand topic of which James has long been the recognised master.

Byzantine antiquities --- Islam --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- History. --- Howard-Johnston, James