By Antonio Gramsci
Lettere dal Carcere
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Colonna, ‘Michaelis Pselli de Euripide et Georgio Pisida iudicium’, Atti dello VIII Congresso Internazionale di Studi Bizantini (Rome, 1953), i. 16–21, at 20. 24–5). 4 Ed. and trans. Pertusi, Giorgio di Pisidia, 77–81. Reference to Heraclius’ coup on 5 October 610 (lines 39–62); hopes for peace (lines 14–38). J. D. C. Frendo, ‘The Poetic Achievement of George of Pisidia: A Literary and Historical Study’, in A. ), MAISTOR: Classical, Byzantine and Renaissance Studies for Robert Browning, Byzantina Australiensia 5 (Canberra, 1984), 159–87, at 167–71 rightly rejects Pertusi’s alternative and preferred dating to 619–20 (Giorgio di Pisidia, 18–19).
This is the final stage of the historiographical investigation which is the main subject of this book. In the course of the various enquiries conducted into specific texts, all the data which can be extracted from them and brought together to form a substantive historical narrative is identified and described. What can be recovered from the darkness of time is recovered, but it is presented in discrete fragments as it is yielded up by individual sources. There is therefore a case for rearranging the fragments into the correct chronological order and taking note of the patterns which may be revealed.
The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium (Leiden, 2007). 2 J. ), The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, iii: States, Resources and Armies (Princeton, 1995), 157–226, repr. in J. Howard-Johnston, East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity (Aldershot, 2006), i. Introduction 3 called Byzantium, was clinging on to the fourth of those power-centres, Asia Minor. It also retained a scatter of other possessions, of which the more important were the islands of the Aegean and the southern extremities of the Balkans (Slavs having colonized much of the interior and Bulgars having gained control of the north-east).