Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium
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Byzantine literary culture
Byzantine Literature
Byzantine Poetry
Byzantine Psalters
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Christophoros Mitylenaios
Dedicatory Epigram
Didactic Poem
Didactic Poetry
didactic poetry analysis
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Eleventh Century Byzantium
Eleventh Century Poetry
eleventh-century Byzantine poetic forms
Emperor's Son
Emperor’s Son
Enrica Follieri
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Hagios Nikolaos
herbert
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intellectual history Byzantium
Ioannis Vassis
lauxtermann
Le XIe
literature
marc
Marc Lauxtermann
medieval Greek verse
Metrical Calendar
Metrical Titles
metrics and prosody studies
michael
Michael Psellos
Nikephoros Botaneiates
psellos
Theodoros Prodromos
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Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138118515
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kristoffel Demoen is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Greek Literature, Ghent University, and Floris Bernard is a post-doctoral research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium
