Poetry in Late Byzantium

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69967-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 933 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire’s final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing together studies on texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople and from court to school, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to Homeric language. It thus offers a reference work to a much-neglected but rich textual material that is as varied as it was potent in the sociocultural contexts of its times.

Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kubina, Krystina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium

Krystina Kubina

Part 2: Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning

2 Worlds Apart?

Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared

Martin Hinterberger

3 Slithering across Verse

The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes’ Poetry

Federica Scognamiglio

4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos’ Rhetoric

A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions

Florin Leonte

Part 3: Praise, Power, and Patronage

5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos

Manuel Holobolos’ Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts

Cosimo Paravano

6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes

Daniil Pleshak

7 Poetry from the Provinces

John Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos

Marina Bazzani

8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza

Ugo Mondini

Part 4: Storytelling in Verse

9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium

Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos

Julián Bértola

10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights

Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad

Alberto Ravani

11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?

A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque

Brendan Osswald

Part 5: Poetry and Instruction

12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers

Prose and Poetry at Work

Giulia M. Paoletti

13 Verses of Great Beauty

An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems

Marc D. Lauxtermann

14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?

On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond

Theodora Antonopoulou

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Krystina Kubina, Ph.D. (2018), Austrian Academy of Sciences, is a research associate at the Institute for Medieval Research. She has published widely on late Byzantine literary culture, including books on epistolary poetry (2021) and the poet Manuel Philes (2020).