{"id":88752,"date":"2024-08-13T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88752"},"modified":"2024-04-30T20:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:09:32","slug":"the-original-secret-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/08\/13\/the-original-secret-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original <em>Secret History<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BNXtvvE36oM?si=OSpKh2NZ-f3OVnhN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Ayling<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Apr 28, 2024<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of Procopius&#8217;s <em>Secret History Of Justinian<\/em> &#8211; originally written around 550, but not published until 1623.<\/p>\n<p>In this video we look at how Procopius wrote the text, how it survived, almost unknown, for 1,000 years, how it came to be published in the 1620s, and the extraordinary ramifications when it was.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n00:44 The Original Composition Of <em>The Secret History<\/em><br \/>\n02:40 The Survival Of The Text In Greek Manuscripts<br \/>\n05:56 The Rediscovery And Publication Of <em>The Secret History<\/em><br \/>\n08:23 <em>Secret Histories<\/em> Go Viral<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Secret Histories, sign up to receive my catalogue of rare books devoted to the subject &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomwayling.co.uk\/register\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tomwayling.co.uk\/register<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have made this video without the help of two works in particular. The first is Brian Croke&#8217;s magisterial <em>Procopius: From Manuscripts To Books: 1400-1850<\/em>. The second is <em>The Secret History In Literature, 1660-1820<\/em> which is edited by Rebecca Bullard and Rachel Carnell.<\/p>\n<p>My name&#8217;s Tom and I&#8217;m an antiquarian bookseller &#8211; you can browse the books I have for sale on my website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomwayling.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tomwayling.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ayling Published Apr 28, 2024 This is the story of Procopius&#8217;s Secret History Of Justinian &#8211; originally written around 550, but not published until 1623. In this video we look at how Procopius wrote the text, how it survived, almost unknown, for 1,000 years, how it came to be published in the 1620s, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,62,1117,7,339],"tags":[1470,1391,858,1490,1312,413],"class_list":["post-88752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-europe","category-france","category-history","category-italy","tag-belisarius","tag-biography","tag-byzantium","tag-historiography","tag-justinianandtheodora","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n5u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88753,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88752\/revisions\/88753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}