Poetry in Late Byzantium /

Poetry in Late Byzantium /

The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire's final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing...

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Other Authors: Kubina, Krystina (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
The Medieval Mediterranean ; 139.

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Byzantine poetry > History and criticism > Congresses.

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Call Number: PA5150

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • 1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium
  •   Krystina Kubina
  • Part 2: Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning
  • 2 Worlds Apart?
  •  Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared
  •   Martin Hinterberger
  • 3 Slithering across Verse
  •  The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes' Poetry
  •   Federica Scognamiglio
  • 4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos' Rhetoric
  •  A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions
  •   Florin Leonte
  • Part 3: Praise, Power, and Patronage
  • 5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos
  •  Manuel Holobolos' Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts
  •   Cosimo Paravano
  • 6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes
  •   Daniil Pleshak
  • 7 Poetry from the Provinces
  •  John Katakalon's Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos
  •   Marina Bazzani
  • 8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza
  •   Ugo Mondini
  • Part 4: Storytelling in Verse
  • 9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium
  •  Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos
  •   Julián Bértola
  • 10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights
  •  Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad
  •   Alberto Ravani
  • 11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?
  •  A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque
  •   Brendan Osswald
  • Part 5: Poetry and Instruction
  • 12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers
  •  Prose and Poetry at Work
  •   Giulia M. Paoletti
  • 13 Verses of Great Beauty
  •  An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems
  •   Marc D. Lauxtermann
  • 14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?
  •  On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond
  •   Theodora Antonopoulou
  • Index.