A Companion to Byzantine Poetry
Title | A Companion to Byzantine Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 590 |
Release | 2019-05-06 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9004392882 |
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.
Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry
Title | Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Rhoby |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Byzantine poetry |
ISBN | 9782503578866 |
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in modern critical editions, a considerable amount of texts still remains completely unedited or accessible only in outdated and unreliable editions.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.
Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry
Title | Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Dimitrios Skrekas |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782503578873 |
Poetry in Late Byzantium
Title | Poetry in Late Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Krystina Kubina |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004699670 |
This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of poetry in the late Byzantine period, covering texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to classicizing.
Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres
Title | Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Diederik Lauxtermann |
Publisher | Austrian Academy of Sciences Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The two-volume study Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres. Texts and Contexts, constitutes a survey of Byzantine poems written between ca. 600 and 1000, with particular emphasis on the historical contexts that generated these texts. It is a study of literary genres set against the background of historical developments that changed Byzantine culture fundamentally. In this first volume the author deals with contextual and textual problems of Byzantine poetry (chapters 1-3) and treats various kinds of the Byzantine epigram (chapters 4-9). The book concludes with 10 appendices that present the material evidence: manuscripts and verse inscriptions. \nThe book is of interest to historians, art historians and philologists; as all the texts are translated, it can also be read by scholars with little or no knowledge of Byzantine Greek.
Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium
Title | Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Floris Bernard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317079426 |
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.
Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081
Title | Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081 PDF eBook |
Author | Floris Bernard |
Publisher | Oxford Studies in Byzantium |
Total Pages | 395 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198703740 |
In the mid-11th century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement. This volume considers this poetic activity as a whole, focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society.