Byzantine culture in translation / edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Brown, Amelia Robertson, editor.

Neil, Bronwen, editor.

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, sponsoring body.

Conference Name:

Australian Byzantine Studies Conference (18th : 2014 : Brisbane, Qld.)

Series:

Byzantina Australiensia ; 21.

Byzantina Australiensia, 0725-3079 ; volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

Literature and culture--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

Literature and culture.

Civilization.

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Congresses.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

"This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Amelia Brown

Narrating the reign of Constantine in Byzantine chronicles / Roger Scott

Breaking down barriers : eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400-620 / Michael Edward Stewart

The Orient Express : Abbot John's rapid trip from Constantinople to Ravenna, c. AD 700 / Ann Moffatt

Bang for his buck : Dioscorides as a gift of the tenth-century Byzantine court / Yvette Hunt

Nikephoros Phokas as superhero / John Burke

Byzantine religious tales in Latin translation : the work of John of Amalfi / John Duffy

Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages : searching for the classical tradition / Maria Mavroudi

A web of translations : Planudes in search of human reason / Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

Translating Dorotheus of Gaza : from Gaza to humanist Europe / Michael Champion

The translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as revealed by the Lorck prospect of the city / Nigel Westbrook and Rene Van Meeuwen

Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek writers in seventeenth-century Wallachia / Alfred Vincent

Yeats's two Byzantiums / Penelope Buckley

Conclusion : translating Byzantium in the new millennium / Bronwen Neil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Byzantine culture in translation

ISBN:

9789004348868

9004348867

OCLC:

982652335

Publisher Number:

99974353332