A companion to Byzantine poetry / edited by Wolfram Horandner, Andreas Rhoby, Nikos Zagklas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hörandner, Wolfram, editor.

Rhoby, Andreas, editor.

Zagklas, Nikos, editor.

Series:

Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 4.

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine poetry--History and criticism.

Byzantine poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (590 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

This book offers the first complete overview of Byzantine poetry from the 4th to the 15th century. By bringing together 22 scholars, it explores the development of poetic trends and the interaction between poetry and society throughout the Byzantine millennium; it addresses a wide range of issues concerning the writing and reading of poetry (such as style, language, metrics, function, and circulation); and it surveys a large number of texts by looking closely at their place within the social and cultural milieus of their authors. Overall, the volume aims to enhance our understanding of Byzantine poetry and shed light on its important place in Byzantine literary culture. Contributors are Eirini Afentoulidou, Gianfranco Agosti, Roderick Beaton, Floris Bernard, Carolina Cupane, Kristoffel Demoen, Ivan Drpic, Jürgen Fuchsbauer, Antonia Giannouli, Martin Hinterberger, Wolfram Hörandner, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Marc Lauxtermann, Ingela Nilsson, Emilie van Opstall, Andreas Rhoby, Kurt Smolak, Foteini Spingou, Maria Tomadaki, Ioannis Vassis, Nikos Zagklas.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction / Nikos Zagklas

Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style

Texts and Contexts / Marc D. Lauxtermann

The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms, and “Mixed Language” / Martin Hinterberger

From Hexameters to Fifteen-Syllable Verse / Michael Jeffreys

Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric / Elizabeth Jeffreys

Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus

Late Antique Poetry and Its Reception / Gianfranco Agosti

George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry? / Ioannis Vassis

Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites / Kristoffel Demoen

John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000 / Emilie van Opstall and Maria Tomadaki

The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries / Floris Bernard

“How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?”: Poetry in the Komnenian Period (1081–1204) / Nikos Zagklas

Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th Century) / Andreas Rhoby

Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond

“Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium / Kurt Smolak

Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World / Eirini Afentoulidou and Jürgen Fuchsbauer

Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200) / Carolina Cupane

Transmission and Circulation

Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry / Foteini Spingou

Byzantine Book Epigrams / Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen

Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object, and Beholder / Ivan Drpić and Andreas Rhoby

Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium

Teaching with Verse in Byzantium / Wolfram Hörandner

Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers / Antonia Giannouli

The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse / Ingela Nilsson

Byzantine Verse Romances / Roderick Beaton

Back Matter

General Bibliography

General Index

Manuscript Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39288-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004392885 DOI