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
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