Jesse W. Torgerson, Ph.D., (2013), University of California Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Letters in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University in the Middletown of Connecticut, USA.

"Jesse Torgerson's work is a significant advance in the study of Eastern Roman historical writing and should cause revision to numerous works of scholarship that have relied on faulty interpretations of the text commonly known as the Chronicle of Theophanes." - Leonora Neville, University of Wisconsin, Madison, in: Speculum 99(1) (2024), p. 294

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsTwo Notes on the TextIntroduction: Reading the Chronographia on Its Own Terms1 Reconstructing Authors or Re-Reading Manuscripts? A New Approach2 Essential Terms and Their Implications for Reading3 The Chronographia’s Invective against Eusebius as Its Claim to Auctoritas4 The Place of the Chronographia in Byzantine Chronography5 The Argument of This BookPart 1: The Argument of the Chronographia1 Text and Manuscripts: The Imperial Logic of the Chronographia1 The Ninth-Century Form of the Chronographia2 The Structure of the Text: AM 5434 as the Beginning of a New Era3 Time’s Order: A Chronology of Emperors or of Universal Years?4 How the Dating Systems Work in Practice5 The Imperial Time of the Chronographia2 Author: The Synkellos and His Imperial Critique1 The Significance of George’s Personal History for Reading the Chronographia2 What Was a synkellos in ca. 800?3 The synkelloi of the Chronographia and the Revolt of AM 6300 (AD 808)4 The Associates of the Synkellos in the Revolt of AD 8085 The Synkellos’ Imperial Critique3 Thesis: The First-Created Day1 What Did the First-Created Day Mean? A Reliable Chronology of Empire2 Theological Truth in the Chronological Paradox of the First-Created Day3 Typology and Chronology: The Past Fulfilled in the Present4 The First-Created Day and the Present Age5 The Thesis of the First Created Day: Chronology and Typology4 Reader: The Invitation of the Preface of Theophanes1 The Preface: From Authorship to Readership2 A Conceptual Map of the Preface3 George as Author and Theophanes as His Reader4 Theophanes, Author of “the Same Chronography,” and His Reader5 The Invitation of the PrefaceAppendix: Preface of Theophanes as in Wake Greek 5, Collated with VG 155Part 2: The Imperial Types of the Chronicle5 Imperial Antitypes: Progenitors, Successors, and Greed1 The Imperial Antitype: The Greedy Emperor2 The Progenitor-Successor Type: Constantine-Constantius3 The Corruption of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Herakleios-Constans4 The Antitype of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Leo III to Constantine V5 Interpreting the Antitypes in the Reader’s Present6 Imperial Prototypes: Mothers, Sons, and Repentance1 The Fulfillment of Early Rulers’ Virtues: Constantine I with Helena2 The Paradigm of Good Rule: Theodosios II with Pulcheria3 Irene and Constantine VI: From a Holy Beginning to a Failed Joint Reign4 From Irene the Sinner to Irene the Repentant5 Irene the Repentant Martyr6 Mothers, Sons and Repentance7 Nikephoros the All-Devourer1 The Transition from Irene to Nikephoros: AM 6295–6296 (AD 802–804)2 Nikephoros’ Failures and a Growing Opposition: AM 6297–6301 (AD 804–809)3 The Ten Evils of Nikephoros I: An Overview4 The First Five Evils: The Evils of Impiety5 The Last Five Evils: The Evils of Greed6 The Parable of the Keroullarios and the All-Devourer: A Typological Reading7 The First End(ing) of the ChronographiaPart 3: The Ends of the Chronographia8 AD 815 and the End of History1 Who Was against Nikephoros? The Faction behind the Chronographia Project2 Who Is for Leo V? The Entries for AM 6303–63053 AM 6303–6305 and the Community of the Chronographia4 The Second End(ing) of the Chronographia9 The Past’s Future: The Chronographia Project in the Mid-Ninth Century1 Dating the Ninth-Century Recensions of the Chronographia2 The Papal-Carolingian Excursus3 The Chronographia and the Triumph of Orthodoxy: AD 843–8474 Writing Time in the Early Middle AgesConclusion: Writing Time for an End1 The Past Study2 The Present Discourse3 An End for the FutureBibliographyIndex