Reading in the Byzantine Empire and beyond /
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Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018 |
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Description: | xxiv, 720 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11738430 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to books, readers, and reading. Byzantium: a bookish world / Teresa Shawcross
- Modern encounters with Byzantine texts and their reading publics / Ida Toth
- Part I. Love for the Written Word: The Emotions of Reading. 1. John Mauropous and the benefits of reading / Marina Bazzani
- 2. The autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios / Michael Angold
- Centre and Margins. 3. The role of the speeches of John the Oxite in Komnenian court politics / Judith R. Ryder
- 4. The liturgical poetics of an elite religious confraternity / Paul Magdalino
- 5. Manuscript notes and the Black Death in rural Cyprus / Tassos Papacostas
- Part II. Contact with a Living Culture: The Power of Rhetoric. 6. Ancient Greek rhetorical theory and Byzantine discursive politics: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes / Panagiotis Roilos
- 7. Memoirs as manifesto: the rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos / Jonathan Shepard
- 8. Performative reading in the late Byzantine theatron / Niels Gaul
- Religious Texts. 9. The religious world of John Malalas / David M. Gwynn
- 10. Oikonomia in the hymns of Romanos the Melode / Johannes Koder
- 11. Quotation and allusion in Symeon the New Theologian / Manolis S. Patedakis
- 12. Scriptural citation in Andronikos Kamateros / Alessandra Bucossi
- Secular Texts. 13. Aristocratic family narratives in twelfth-century Byzantium / Peter Frankopan
- 14. Historiography, epic and the textual transmission of imperial values: Liudprand's Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites / Gunter Prinzing
- 15. Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine romance Tale of Troy / Ulrich Moennig
- Part III. Communication and Influence: Educational Practices. 16. Late Byzantine school teaching through the iambic canons and their paraphrase / Dimitrios Skrekas
- Text and Image. 17. Eros, literature and the Veroli Casket / Liz James
- 18. Object, text and performance in four Komnenian tent poems / Margaret Mullett
- 19. Textual and visual representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin West / Maja Kominko
- Interlingual Circulation and Transmission. 20. Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian literary tradition in Byzantium / Tim Greenwood
- 21. Bilingual reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi / James Howard-Johnston
- 22. Transplanting culture: from Greek novel to medieval romance / Roderick Beaton
- Part IV. Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology: Traces of Authorship. 23. Anonymous textual survivals from Late Antiquity / Fiona K. Haarer
- 24. Authorship and the Letters of Theodore Daphnopates / John Duffy
- 25. Authorship revisited: language and metre in the Ptochoprodromika / Marjolijne C. Janssen and Marc D. Lauxtermann
- Recovered Languages. 26. The lexicon of horses' colours in learned and vernacular texts / Erich Trapp
- 27. Multilingualism and translation in the edition of vernacular texts / Manolis Papathomopoulos
- Afterword: Reading and hearing in Byzantium / Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys.