Storyworlds in Short Narratives : Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales /
This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary stud...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
Series:
Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages ;
31.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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Call Number: D410
- Preface
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Introduction
- Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
- Part 1: Tale Theory and Poetics
- 1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine Tale
- Stavroula Constantinou
- 2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and Paradoxography
- Christian Høgel
- 3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of Paradoxography
- Ingela Nilsson
- Part 2: The Art of Storytelling
- 4 Didactic Tales in Galen
- Sophia Xenophontos
- 5 Repetition and the Storyteller's Profile in Early Byzantine Tale Collections
- Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
- 6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of Enchantment
- Nicolò Sassi
- Part 3: Tales in Collections
- 7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections Revisited
- Julia Doroszewska
- 8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical Anthologies
- Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
- 9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios Sinaites
- Markéta Kulhánková
- General Index.