Skip to search
Skip to main content
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
The Oxford handbook of Byzantine literature / edited by Stratis Papaioannou.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
©2021
Description
xiv, 763 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Byzantine literature
—
History and criticism
[Browse]
Byzantine Empire
—
Civilization
[Browse]
Byzantine Empire
—
Intellectual life
[Browse]
Transmission of texts
—
Byzantine Empire
[Browse]
Manuscripts, Byzantine
[Browse]
Editor
Papaioannou, Stratis
[Browse]
Series
Oxford handbooks
[More in this series]
Summary note
"Byzantine literary studies, despite their long scholarly tradition, remain a fragile enterprise, just as Byzantine Greek literature continues to be a relatively exotic domain. The present volume, the first of its kind in English, maps this literature and the field of its study, aiming to provide a true vade mecum, that will accompany as well as invite readers of Byzantine texts. In twenty-five chapters, composed by leading specialists, the volume surveys the immense body of Greek literature produced from the fourth to the fifteenth century CE, and propagates a nuanced understanding of what "literature" was in Byzantium, highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools. Four parts structure the volume. Part I, "Materials, Norms, Codes", presents basic matrices for literary creation in Byzantium: language, manuscript book culture, theories of literature, and systems of textual memory, from within the history of Greek (classical literature and ancient myth) and from without (literature translated into Greek from other languages). Part II, "Forms", deals with the "how" of Byzantine literature: oral discourse and "text"; storytelling; rhetoric; rewriting; verse; and song. Part III, "Agents", focuses on the "creators" of Byzantine literature, both its producers and its recipients. Part IV, "Translation, Transmission, Edition", surveys the three main ways by which we access Byzantine Greek literature today: translations into other Byzantine languages during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts; and modern, printed editions. A final, concluding chapter offers a view of the recent past and the likely future of Byzantine literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
What is Byzantine literature? An introduction / Stratis Papaioannou
Part I. Materials, norms, codes: Language / Martin Hinterberger
Book culture / Filippo Ronconi and Stratis Papaioannou
Theory of literature / Stratis Papaioannou
Biblical hermeneutics / Fr. Maximos Constas
) Memory : selection, citation, commonplace / Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
The reception of Classical literature and ancient myth / Anthony Kaldellis
Translations I: From other languages into Greek: Latin / Réka Forrai
Syriac / Pablo Ubierna
Arabic / Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
Georgian / Nikoloz Aliksidze
Neo-Latin languages / Carolina Cupane
Part II. Forms: Orality and textuality (with an appendix on the Byzantine conceptions) / Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
Narrative: theory and practice / Ingela Nilsson
Rhetorical practice / Alexander Riehle
Rhetorical figures / Vessela Valiavitcharska
A rhetorical genre(?): the invective (9th-15th c.) / Ioannis Polemis
Rewriting / Stephanos Efthymiadis
Poetry? / Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen
Inscriptions / Ivan Drpić
Metrics and prose rhythm / Wolfram Hörandner and Andreas Rhoby
Sacred song / Stratis Papaioannou
Recitation and chant: types of notation, modes of expression / Sandra Martani
Part III. Agents: Authors (with an excursus on Symeon Metaphrastes) / Stratis Papaioannou
Readers and their pleasures / Stratis Papaioannou
Part IV. Translation, transmission, edition: Translations II: Greek texts into other languages (4th-15th c.): Latin / Réka Forrai
Coptic / Arietta Papaconstantinou
Armenian / Theo Maarten van Lint
Georgian / Nikoloz Aleksidze
Arabic / Alexander Treiger
Slavic / Sergey Ivanov and Anatolii Turilov
Modes of manuscript transmission (9th-15th c.) / Inmaculada Pérez Martín
Textual criticism / Caroline Macé
Postscript: Thoughts on the recent past and the future of Byzantine literary studies / Margaret Mullett.
Show 31 more Contents items
Other title(s)
Handbook of Byzantine literature
ISBN
9780199351763 (hardcover)
0199351767 (hardcover)
LCCN
2020058304
OCLC
1227030242
Statement on responsible collection description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Supplementary Information
Other versions
The Oxford handbook of Byzantine literature / edited by Stratis Papaioannou.
id
99125375924906421