Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

This book analyses Julian the Apostate from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture.

Stefano Trovato is Director of the Biblioteca Universitaria (Ministero della Cultura) in Padua, Italy. His research focuses on the classical tradition, with a special interest in the perceptions of the ancient past in the medieval and modern worlds.

I Son of the devil and sophist of wickedness: the black legend / II A sulphurous and versatile emperor / III The Reinvention of Julian by Chroniclers, Historians, and Hagiographers / IV The Blood of Innocents: The Victims of a Sovereign Who is "Deceitful, Capable of Anything, and Skilled in Doing Evil" / V The Blood of Innocents: "a Great Persecution against the Christians" / VI Even the Dead against Julian / VII "Constantine, the son of a prostitute, recognized the true God and you abandon him?" Telescoping Julian and Constantine / VIII Julian in Byzantine liturgical books, a synthesis of the early medieval Byzantine hagiographical tradition / IX Between old stories and new imaginative reconstructions: a glance before the decline of Byzantium / X Approaching the end: a new beginning, longing for a distant past/ XI The end: beyond Byzantium / Bibliography / List of Abbreviations