Poetry in Late Byzantium

✍ Scribed by Krystina Kubina

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 488
Series: Medieval Mediterranean; 139
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of poetry in the late Byzantine period, covering texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to classicizing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Abbreviations
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Introduction
1
Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium
Part 2
Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning
2
Worlds Apart?: Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared
3 Slithering across Verse: The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes’ Poetry
4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos’ Rhetoric: A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions
Part 3
Praise, Power, and Patronage
5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos: Manuel Holobolos’ Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts
6
Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes
7 Poetry from the Provinces: John Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos
8
Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza
Part 4
Storytelling in Verse
9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium: Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos
10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights: Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad
11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?: A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque
Part 5
Poetry and Instruction
12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers:
Prose and Poetry at Work
13 Verses of Great Beauty: An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems
14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?: On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond
Index
Back Cover

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