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Author : Anna Maria Taragna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788862744171
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ten centuries of Byzantine prose written by Anna Maria Taragna and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel G. Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110828510
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Anthology of Byzantine Prose written by Nigel G. Wilson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Athanasios Markopoulos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939340
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th–10th Centuries written by Athanasios Markopoulos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty, and include four translated into English for this volume. They reflect both historical and prosopographical concerns, but Professor Markopoulos's principle interest is in the analysis of literary works and texts. This he combines with the examination of the ideological context of the period, as shaped in the reigns of Basil I and Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, and the investigation of gender issues and other approaches. The close analysis of the texts shows how, after the close of Iconoclasm, new styles of writing and new attitudes towards the writing of history emerged, for instance in the use of mythological themes, which exemplify the changing intellectual concerns of the time.
Author : Alexander Kazhdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521105224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries written by Alexander Kazhdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly, histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the history of genres. The essays in this book challenge the traditional view. They attempt to show the coherence and individuality not of the genre but of author. By careful analysis of all the works of a given author, regardless of genre, these studies aim to reach behind the facade of convention, to discover not only biographical facts but also the writer's own likes and dislikes, his social views, his political sympathies and antipathies, his ethical and aesthetic standards. Most of the authors under consideration lived in the twelfth century. Several of them experienced or wrote about the same set of events; often they were acquainted with one another, or else had mutual friends. Thus each essay is both complete in itself and complementary to the others in the book; the individuality of each writer is most fully revealed in the comparison with his contemporaries and conversely the separate portraits may be combined to form a broader picture of Byzantine literary society of the time.
Author : Marc D. Lauxtermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351803964
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantium in the Eleventh Century written by Marc D. Lauxtermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with clichés and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392882
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Companion to Byzantine Poetry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.
Author : Floris Bernard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079426
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium written by Floris Bernard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often permeated with wit and elegance, and is concerned with a wide variety of subjects. Only now are we beginning to perceive the possibilities that this poetry offers for our knowledge of Byzantine culture in general, for the intellectual history of Byzantium, and for the evolution of poetry itself. It is, moreover, sometimes in the most neglected texts that the most fascinating discoveries can be made. This book, the first collaborative book-length study on the topic, takes an important step to fill this gap. It brings together specialists of the period who delve into this poetry with different but complementary objectives in mind, covering the links between art and text, linguistic evolutions, social functionality, contemporary reading attitudes, and the like. The authors aim to give the production of 11th-century verse a place in the Byzantine genre system and in the historic evolution of Byzantine poetry and metrics. As a result, this book will, to use the expression of two important poets of the period, "offer a small taste" of what can be gained from the serious study of this period.
Author : A. P. Kazhdan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520069625
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries written by A. P. Kazhdan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Author : Ioannis Smarnakis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021190
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Late Byzantine Romance in Context written by Ioannis Smarnakis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike, specializing in or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136066268
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period written by Gregory Nagy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics.
