The culture of Latin Greece : seven tales from the 13th and 14th centuries / by Vladimir Agrigoroaei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agrigoroaei, Vladimir, author.

Series:

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1872-8103 ; volume 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--323-1453--Sources.

Greece.

Latin Empire, 1204-1261--Sources.

Latin Empire, 1204-1261.

Literature and history--Greece--History--To 1500.

Literature and history.

History in literature.

Greece--Civilization--Roman influences.

Civilization--Roman influences.

History--Sources.

Europe--Latin Empire, 1204-1261.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 volume. 1 volume ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"The artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece cannot be analysed by a conventional approach. Follow the author and the historical protagonists of his tales in a journey through a fragmentary shape-shifting corpus, from the medieval translations of Aristotle to pornographic animal tales carved on church columns. The book explains how art and literature were intertwined, how they evolved from the times of Nicetas Choniates to those of Isabella of Lusignan, and under what influences. It is based on the assumption that history is a form of literature, as they both share an "arbitrary distribution of emphasis" (Isaiah Berlin)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Maps

The First Tale: How This Book Came to Be

User Guide/Reader's Manual

The Second Tale: The Old Man on the Island

Case Study 1: The Pseudo-Gregory Quotation of Cardinal Benedict

Case Study 2: The Greek Denis and a Forgotten Athenian Monastery

The Third Tale: Besides Translating Aristotle

Case Study 3: Saint Denis, Athens, and a Parisian Manuscript

Case Study 4: The Spandrel Panels of the Byzantine Museum in Athens

Case Study 5: The Narthex of Omorphi Ekklisia in Galatsi

Case Study 6: The Churches of Merbaka and Gorgoepikoos

The Fourth Tale: A Lady's Change of Heart

Case Study 7: The Songbook That Prince William Perhaps Never Had

Case Study 8: The Mural Cycles of Thebes, Akronafplio, and Patras

The Fifth Tale: Se una notte d'inverno un Spirituale ...

Case Study 9: The Greek Chronicle of Morea and Its French 'Egg'

Case Study 10: Ho Polemos tēs Trōados, an Offshoot of a Franco-Italian

Tradition

Case Study 11: The Holy Mass of Attica, amid Columns and Arcades

The Sixth Tale: Melusine Goes to Mystras

Case Study 12: The Catalan Head of Saint George

Case study 13: The So-Called Achilleid as a Game of Forms

Case Study 14: The Alexander Carving in the Perivleptos of Mystras

Case Study 15: The Doubtful Orality of the 13th-14th Century Digenis

Case Study 16: The Roman de Renart in the Churches of Mani

The Seventh Tale: The Notary Learnt Too Much

Case Study 17: Uther Pendragon Fights Belisarius in the Ultimate Literary

War

Epilogue

Figures

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Agrigoroaei, Vladimir. Culture of Latin Greece

ISBN:

9789004524217

9004524215

OCLC:

1350093591