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Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio : a critical edition, with english translation, introduction, and notes of John Kananos' account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422 / edited by Andreas Massimo Cuomo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cananus, Joannes, active 15th century.
- Series:
- Byzantinisches Archiv ; Band 30.
- Byzantinisches Archiv, 1864-9785 ; Band 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military art and science.
- Manuel II Palaeologus, Emperor of the East, 1350-1425.
- Manuel.
- Istanbul (Turkey)--History--Early works to 1800.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- Works cited in abbreviation
- 1. Introduction
- 2.1 The Manuscripts
- 2.2 Ratio Edendi. The present edition
- 2.3 Punctuation
- 2.4 Apparatus
- 2.5 The language of Kananos: An overview
- Critical edition and English translation
- Thesaurus
- Plates
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 24, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781501502903
- 1501502905
- 9781501502880
- 1501502883
- OCLC:
- 979581315
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