The Oxford handbook of Byzantine literature / edited by Stratis Papaioannou.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description
1 online resource (848 pages) : illustrations.

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Editor
Series
Oxford handbooks online [More in this series]
Summary note
This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE). In twenty-five chapters composed by leading specialists, 'The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature' surveys the immense body of Greek literature produced from the fourth to the fifteenth century CE and advances a nuanced understanding of what 'literature' was in Byzantium.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2021.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 14, 2021).
Contents
  • Thoughts on the Recent Past and the Future of Byzantine Literary Studies / Margaret Mullett
  • Rewriting / Stephanos Efthymiadis
  • Translations II: Coptic / Arietta Papaconstantinou
  • A Rhetorical Genre(?): The Invective (9th - 15th c.) / Ioannis Polemis
  • Translations II: Arabic / Alexander Treiger
  • Language / Martin Hinterberger
  • Biblical Hermeneutics / Maximos Constas
  • Translations I: Georgian / Nikoloz Aleksidze
  • Memory: Selection, Citation, Commonplace / Charis Messis, Stratis Papaioannou
  • Translations I: Arabic / Charis Messis, Stratis Papaioannou
  • Translations I: Neo-Latin Languages / Carolina Cupane
  • Orality and Textuality (With an Appendix on the Byzantine Conceptions) / Charis Messis, Stratis Papaioannou
  • Rhetorical Figures / Vessela Valiavitcharska
  • Poetry? / Floris Bernard, Kristoffel Demoen
  • Inscriptions / Ivan Drpiâc
  • Metrics and Prose Rhythm / Wolfram Hèorandner, Andreas Rhoby
  • Recitation and Chant: Types of Notation, Modes of Expression / Sandra Martani
  • Textual Criticism / Caroline Macâe
  • Translations II: Armenian / Theo Maarten van Lint
  • Translations II: Slavic / Sergey Ivanov, Anatolii Turilov
  • Book Culture / Filippo Ronconi, Stratis Papaioannou
  • Translations I: Latin / Râeka Forrai
  • Translations I: Syriac / Pablo Ubierna
  • Theory of Literature / Stratis Papaioannou
  • What is Byzantine Literature? An Introduction / Stratis Papaioannou
  • Sacred Song / Stratis Papaioannou
  • Authors (With an Excursus on Symeon Metaphrastes) / Stratis Papaioannou
  • Modes of Manuscript Transmission (Ninth - Fifteenth Centuries) / Inmaculada Pâerez Martâin
  • Readers and their Pleasures / Stratis Papaioannou
  • Translations II: Syriac / Pablo Ubierna
  • Translations II: Georgian / Nikoloz Aleksidze
  • Translations II: Latin / Râeka Forrai
  • The Reception of Classical Literature and Ancient Myth / Anthony Kaldellis
  • Narrative: Theory and Practice / Ingela Nilsson
  • Rhetorical Practice / Alexander Riehle.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Byzantine literature
  • Byzantine literature
ISBN
9780199351787 (ebook) :
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