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Este estudio pretende determinar las fuentes de las que se sirviô el patriarca Nicéforo de Constantinopla para la redacción de una de sus obras mas conocidas. Partimos de un error en la identificación de Prisco, al que llama Crispo, que en la tradición historiográfica bizantina en griego solo se da en este texto y en aquellos otros que se basan en él. Lo que se propone es una comparación con fuentes anteriores, pertenecientes a otras tradiciones, con el objeto de determinar su origen. En segundo lugar, se tratará de establecer en qué grado lo continuadores de Nicéforo añadieron nuevos elementos con el objetivo de mostrar una hipotética cadena de transmisión documental que nos permita atisbar los mecanismos de (re)construcción del pasado y de intercambio de información.

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This study aims to determine the sources used by Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople for the writing of one of his best-known works. We start from an error in the identification of Priscus, whom he calls Crispus, which in the Byzantine historiographic tradition in Greek only occurs in this text and in those others that are based on it. What is proposed is a comparison with earlier sources belonging to other traditions, with the aim of determining its origin. Secondly, we will try to establish to what degree Nicephorus's continuators added new elements with the aim of showing a hypothetical chain of documentary transmission that allows us to glimpse the mechanisms of (re)construction of the past and of information exchange. Poetry describing architecture in Late Antiquity became increasingly popular from the 4th century onwards with the spread of Christianity and the flourishing of places of worship. These poetic texts, found in inscriptions and Latin literary works, fulfil a triple function: commemorative, didactic and doctrinal. On the basis of a collection of epigrams from the Roman West, dating from the 4th to the 6th century, we analyse the figure of the saint as a literary motif that justifies the construction and maintenance of churches. We also describe the main formulations of the theme in their poetic context.

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