Reading in the Byzantine Empire and beyond /

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Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xxiv, 720 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11738430
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Other authors / contributors:Shawcross, Clare Teresa M., 1975- editor.
Toth, Ida, 1968- editor.
ISBN:9781108418416
1108418414
9781108307901
1108307906
9781108289993
1108289991
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-707) and index.
Summary:"Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies."
Other form:ebook version : 9781108307901

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505 0 0 |g Introduction to books, readers, and reading.  |t Byzantium: a bookish world /  |r Teresa Shawcross --  |t Modern encounters with Byzantine texts and their reading publics /  |r Ida Toth --  |g Part I. Love for the Written Word:  |g The Emotions of Reading.  |g 1.  |t John Mauropous and the benefits of reading /  |r Marina Bazzani --  |g 2.  |t The autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios /  |r Michael Angold --  |g Centre and Margins.  |g 3.  |t The role of the speeches of John the Oxite in Komnenian court politics /  |r Judith R. Ryder --  |g 4.  |t The liturgical poetics of an elite religious confraternity /  |r Paul Magdalino --  |g 5.  |t Manuscript notes and the Black Death in rural Cyprus /  |r Tassos Papacostas --  |g Part II. Contact with a Living Culture:  |g The Power of Rhetoric.  |g 6.  |t Ancient Greek rhetorical theory and Byzantine discursive politics: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes /  |r Panagiotis Roilos --  |g 7.  |t Memoirs as manifesto: the rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos /  |r Jonathan Shepard --  |g 8.  |t Performative reading in the late Byzantine theatron /  |r Niels Gaul --  |g Religious Texts.  |g 9.  |t The religious world of John Malalas /  |r David M. Gwynn --  |g 10.  |t Oikonomia in the hymns of Romanos the Melode /  |r Johannes Koder --  |g 11.  |t Quotation and allusion in Symeon the New Theologian /  |r Manolis S. Patedakis --  |g 12.  |t Scriptural citation in Andronikos Kamateros /  |r Alessandra Bucossi --  |g Secular Texts.  |g 13.  |t Aristocratic family narratives in twelfth-century Byzantium /  |r Peter Frankopan --  |g 14.  |t Historiography, epic and the textual transmission of imperial values: Liudprand's Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites /  |r Gunter Prinzing --  |g 15.  |t Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine romance Tale of Troy /  |r Ulrich Moennig --  |g Part III. Communication and Influence:  |g Educational Practices.  |g 16.  |t Late Byzantine school teaching through the iambic canons and their paraphrase /  |r Dimitrios Skrekas --  |g Text and Image.  |g 17.  |t Eros, literature and the Veroli Casket /  |r Liz James --  |g 18.  |t Object, text and performance in four Komnenian tent poems /  |r Margaret Mullett --  |g 19.  |t Textual and visual representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin West /  |r Maja Kominko --  |g Interlingual Circulation and Transmission.  |g 20.  |t Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian literary tradition in Byzantium /  |r Tim Greenwood --  |g 21.  |t Bilingual reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi /  |r James Howard-Johnston --  |g 22.  |t Transplanting culture: from Greek novel to medieval romance /  |r Roderick Beaton --  |g Part IV. Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology:  |g Traces of Authorship.  |g 23.  |t Anonymous textual survivals from Late Antiquity /  |r Fiona K. Haarer --  |g 24.  |t Authorship and the Letters of Theodore Daphnopates /  |r John Duffy --  |g 25.  |t Authorship revisited: language and metre in the Ptochoprodromika /  |r Marjolijne C. Janssen and Marc D. Lauxtermann --  |g Recovered Languages.  |g 26.  |t The lexicon of horses' colours in learned and vernacular texts /  |r Erich Trapp --  |g 27.  |t Multilingualism and translation in the edition of vernacular texts /  |r Manolis Papathomopoulos --  |g Afterword:  |t Reading and hearing in Byzantium /  |r Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys. 
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