Reading Michael Psellos / edited by Charles E. Barber and David Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barber, Charles, 1964-

Jenkins, David (David Todd)

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 61.

Medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psellus, Michael.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers of this volume originated in a workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in February 2004 to discuss the variety of ways one might read Michael Psellos (1018-after 1081?). One of most original figures of Byzantine intellectual history, Psellos was a polymath whose range extended from rhetoric and philosophy to law and medicine. While his history of his own times, the Chronographia , is one of the best known works of Byzantine literature, very little else of his large body of work has been translated. It is the intention of this volume to encourage a wider awareness of Psellos' many interests by offering readings of his original texts from a variety of scholarly perspectives.

Contents:

Foreword

1. Dealing with the Psellos Corpus: From Allatius to Westerink and the Bibliotheca Teubneriana // John Duffy

2. Imagery in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos // Antony R. Littlewood

3. Michael Psellos in a Hagiographical Landscape: The Life of St. Auxentios and the Encomion of Symeon the Metaphrast // Elizabeth A. Fisher

4. A Twist of Plot: Psellos, Heliodorus and Narratology // Christopher A. McLaren

5. Animated Statues: Aesthetics and Movement // Stratis Papaioannou

6. Living Painting, or the Limits of Pointing? Glancing at Icons with Michael Psellos // Charles Barber

7. Psellos' Conceptual Precision // David Jenkins

8. The Writing of Dreams: A Note on Psellos' Funeral Oration for his Mother // Christine Angelidi

9. Attaleiates as a Reader of Psellos // Dimitri Krallis

10. Michael Psellos' De Daemonibus in the Renaissance // Darin Hayton

11. Thoughts on the Future of Psellos-Studies, with Attention to his Mother's Encomium // Anthony Kaldellis

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39943-4

9786611399436

90-474-0980-9

OCLC:

923614171

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409809 DOI