Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts

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Paperback, vii + 413 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503578866. Summary It is only in recent years that Byzantine poetry - a long-neglected aspect of Byzantine literature - has attracted the attention of philologists, literary and cultural historians. This holds true especially for the poetry written in middle and late Byzantium.Though many collections of poems are available in modern critical editions, a considerable amount of texts still remains completely unedited or accessible only in outdated and unreliable editions. Moreover, many works of this period have never been studied thoroughly with regard to their cultural impact on society. Issues of authorship and patronage, function, literary motives, generic qualities, and manuscripts still await further study. This volume aims to take a step to fill this gap. Although it includes studies on poetry from the early tenth to the fifteenth centuries, the main focus is placed on the Komnenian and Palaeologan times. It presents editions of completely unknown texts, such as a twelfth-century cycle of epigrams on John Klimax. It includes studies on various types of poetry, including didactic, occasional, and even poetry written for liturgical purposes. By analysing these works and placing them within their literary and socio-cultural context, we can draw conclusions about the cultural tastes of the Byzantines and acquire a more nuanced picture of middle and late Byzantine poetry. TABLE OF CONTENTS Nikos Zagklas & Andreas Rhoby, Introduction Part I: Studies in the Poetry of the Middle and Late Byzantine Period Section I: Forms, Perceptions & Functions Floris Bernard, Rhythm in the Byzantine Dodecasyllable: Practices and Perceptions Nikos Zagklas, Metrical Polyeideia and Generic Innovation in the Twelfth Century: The Multimetric Cycles of Occasional Poetry Section II: Authors & Texts Maria Tomadaki, The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature in the Iambic Poems of John Geometres Przemys?aw Marciniak & Katia Warcaba, Theodore Prodromos' Katomyomachia as a Byzantine Version of Mock-Heroic Epic Andreas Rhoby, The Poetry of Theodore Balsamon: Form and Function Krystina Kubina, Manuel Philes - A Begging Poet? Requests, Letters and Problems of Genre Definition Marina Bazzani, The Art of Requesting in the Poetry of Manuel Philes Section III: Hymnography & Its Contexts Theodora Antonopoulou, Imperial Hymnography? The Canons Attributed to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. With the critical edition of the First Canon on St John Chrysostom Dimitrios Skrekas, Translations and Paraphrases of Liturgical Poetry in Late Byzantine Thessalonica Part II: The Editio princeps of a Completely Unknown Text Renaat Meesters and Rachele Ricceri, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax: Editio princeps, Translation and Commentary Renaat Meesters, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax: A Brief Analysis 0 g.…

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Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts
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Andreas Rhoby, Nikolaos Zagklas (eds)
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, Brepols, 2019
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