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This chapter was written to inaugurate the conference on Byzantine narrative, which is both in the series of Australian Association of Byzantine Studies conferences and in honour of Roger Scott. Truth here seems an undesirable feature in a history. Roger’s great expertise is in the sixth century, a period which shares one characteristic with the century of Anna and Tzetzes: its innovation and fluidity, its mixing of genres. Otherwise, Bakhtin’s theory looks attractive: as well as the mixing of genres, this is the period of the experiments with the vernacular which produced Glykas’s poem from prison, and the Ptochoprodromika, with language certainly renewing itself by incorporating extra-literary elements. What Skylitzes wanted to see in a history was a summary of previous reliable chronicles (perhaps like the ‘documents which came into Anna’s possession’) equally crafted and worked over as Anna’s piece of weaving.
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