Michael Psellos on literature and art : a Byzantine perspective on aesthetics / edited by Charles Barber and Stratis Papaioannou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Psellus, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Barber, Charles, 1964- editor.

Papaioannou, Stratis, editor.

Series:

Michael Psellos in translation

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2017

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Byzantine.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 429 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Summary:

Michael Psellos has long been known as a key figure in the history of Byzantine literary and intellectual culture, but his theoretical and critical reflections on literature and art are little known outside of a small circle of specialists. Most famous for his Chronographia, a history of eleventh-century Byzantine emperors and their reigns, Psellos also excelled in describing as well as prescribing practices and rules for literary discourse and visual culture. The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public. The editors of this volume present thirty Psellian texts, all of which have been translated - some in part, most in their entirety - into English. In the majority of cases, the works are translated for the first time in any modern language, and several are discussed at length here for the first time. They are grouped into two separate sections, which roughly translate to two areas of theoretical reflection associated with the modern terms 'literature' and 'art.'0.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Psellus, Michael. Michael Psellos on literature and art.

ISBN:

9780268100483

0268100489

9780268100490

0268100497

OCLC:

962232560