After the text : Byzantine enquiries in honour of Margaret Mullett / edited by Liz James, Oliver Nicholson and Roger Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Mullett, Margaret, honouree.

James, Liz, editor.

Nicholson, Oliver, editor.

Scott, Roger, 1938- editor.

Series:

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; v. 32.

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Civilization.

Byzantine Empire--History.

History.

Byzantine literature--History and criticism.

Byzantine literature.

Mullett, Margaret.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxx, 373 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature. Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Professor Mullett's perceptive studies, produced over more than 40 years, have shown that the literature of the Byzantine Empire is of equal beauty and interest, ranging, as it does, from high-style poetry and rhetoric in the classical manner through letters to demotic writings such as fables and the lives of saints. The collection of essays in this volume draws further attention to the wealth and diversity of Byzantine texts, by exploring the Greek literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in all its variety. These studies, by going, like Professor Mullett herself, beyond the texts, illustrate the value of Byzantine literature for interpreting Byzantine history and civilisation in all its richness. This book is crucial reading for scholars and students of the Byzantine world, as well as for those interested in literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Margaret Mullett OBE appreciations

Professor Margaret Mullett OBE : a life in Byzantium

The presentation of Christ in the Temple (Hypapante) according to two Byzantine hymnographers : an encounter in liturgical time and space

Mary B. Cunningham

Variations on the theme of death : two Byzantine limb-by-limb laments / Barbara Crostini

Theodore Prodromos, Carmina historica, I : translation and commentary / Paul Magdalino and Ruth Macrides

Visually demolished and textually reconstructed : performing the Middle Ages in contemporary crime fiction / Panagiotis A. Agapitos

More than a story : Lactantius, the anger of God and the deaths of the persecutors / Oliver Nicholson

Narratives of fluency : miracles of Mary and Mariology between Byzantium and the West / Francesca Dell'Acqua

What's in a nameThe Byzantine chronicles / Paolo Odorico

Kedrenos' substitution for Theophanes' Chronicle / Roger Scott with John Burke and Paul Tuffin

The Typikon section in the Lives of Athanasios the Athonite : sources and agendas / Dirk Krausmüller

Constantine the Rhodian's εἰκών of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople / Beatrice Daskas

Τῇ βασιλίσσῃ μοναχῇ κυρᾷ : an unedited letter to Eirene Doukaina (and an ethopoiia in verse by her son for his father) / Stratis Papaioannou

Sophocles, Euripides and the unusual cento / Przemysław Marciniak

Letters, Latinitas, and latent wordplay : John Milton's didactic epistles to Richard Jones / Estelle Haan

The rose and the dung beetle : Theodore Laskaris on 'friendship' and 'envy' / Martin Hinterberger

Homo Byzantinus : keeping women in their place / Liz James

Same-gender friendships and enmity in the life of Eupraxia / Stavroula Constantinou

Basil the Younger comes to stay : eunuchs and other male friends in Constantinopolitan households / Shaun Tougher

Women remembering womenthe 'miracle in Latomos' motif in medieval Macedonia / Rowena Loverance

Reading Aesop in Cappadocia / Robert Ousterhout with assistance from Anna Sitz

Reading an icon of the Black Mohammed : Georgios Klontzas on Islam / Charles Barber

The Monastery of Christ the Saviour in Sourmaina and the hagiographical dossier of St. Eugenios / James Crow

The transmission of monumental art : travelling saints and monastic networks / Pamela Armstrong

Exploring Thessaloniki

a mismatch of art history and urban history / Robin Cormack

The impact of choir and organ on synagogue architecture. preliminary thoughts on the role of musical performance in Balkan Sephardic communities / Fani Gargova

Epilogue / Leslie Brubaker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: After the text

ISBN:

9780367898861

0367898861

9781032065458

1032065451

OCLC:

1256593117