caa a22 4500 378878786 CHVBK 20180305123427.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200304 xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/BYZS.2002.711 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/BYZS.2002.711 de Vries- van der Velden Eva Amsterdam C. SODE, Jerusalem - Konstantinopel - Rom. Die Viten des Michael Synkellos und der Brüder Theodoros und Theophanes Graptoi [Elektronische Daten] [Eva de Vries- van der Velden] The modern critical approach to things hagiographical still wavers when it comes to taking leave of twelve lines of iambic invective, branded with wonderful delicacy of touch on the saintly foreheads of two Palestinian brothers, Theodore and Theophanes, the so-called "Graptoi”. Barry Baldwin, noting that C.A. Trypanis, unlike the great B. Bury and others, was inclined to disbelieve the story, could not help expressing the hope that it was true (An Anthology of Byzantine Poetry, Amsterdam 1985, pp. 142-3). It is of course only one of the many stories concocted by iconodule propaganda. The central question has to be formulated in more general terms: how is history made? History here primarily in the sense of the construction of the past by the Byzantines themselves, was embodied in historical narratives moving between hagiography and historiography. Trying to lay bare the basis and elements of such constructs will always remain a major task of critical historical scholarship. © 2002 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, München und Leipzig Byzantinische Zeitschrift Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 95/2(2003-04), 711-714 0007-7704 95:2<711 2003 95 BYZS https://doi.org/10.1515/BYZS.2002.711 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/BYZS.2002.711 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- de Vries- van der Velden Eva Amsterdam NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Byzantinische Zeitschrift Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 95/2(2003-04), 711-714 0007-7704 95:2<711 2003 95 BYZS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter