A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography / edited by Alexander Riehle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riehle, A. (Alexander), editor.

Series:

Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World ; 7.

Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine letters--History and criticism.

Byzantine letters.

Letter writing, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Summary:

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography introduces and contextualizes the culture of Byzantine letter writing from various socio-historical, material and literary angles. While this culture was long regarded as an ivory-tower pastime of intellectual elites, the eighteen essays in this volume, authored by leading experts in the field, show that epistolography had a vital presence in many areas of Byzantine society, literature and art. The chapters offer discussions of different types of letters and intersections with non-epistolary genres, their social functions as media of communication and performance, their representations in visual and narrative genres, and their uses in modern scholarship. The volume thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of letter writing in the Byzantine Empire and beyond.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Byzantine Epistolography: a Historical and Historiographical Sketch / Alexander Riehle

Contexts for Byzantine Epistolography

Letter Writing in Antiquity and Early Christianity / Thomas Johann Bauer

Syriac Epistolography / Jack Tannous

Letter Collections in the Latin West / Lena Wahlgren-Smith

Byzantine Letter-Writers in Context

Michael Psellos / Floris Bernard

The Letters of Demetrios Kydones / Florin Leonte

Forms and Functions of Byzantine Epistolography

Epistolography and Rhetoric / Sofia Kotzabassi

Epistolography and Diplomatics / Alexander Beihammer

Didacticism in Byzantine Epistolography / Florin Leonte

Epistolography and Philosophy / Divna Manolova

Epistolary Culture and Friendship / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis

Epistolary Communication: Rituals and Codes / Floris Bernard

The Epistolographic Self / Stratis Papaioannou

The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, and Soul (and Their Audience) / Niels Gaul

Letters and Letter Exchange in Byzantine Art / Cecily J. Hilsdale

Letters in Narrative Literature / Carolina Cupane

Byzantine Epistolography and (Post-)Modern Theory

Letters and Network Analysis / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Letters and New Philology / Alexander Riehle

Back Matter

General Bibliography

General Index

Index of Greek Terms

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Papyri.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-42461-X

OCLC:

1152473145

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004424616 DOI