Margaret Mullett

Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The studies in this collection look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. Of major focus is the genre of the letter. Epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, originality and communication and as evidence for political history. Other genre

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000941647
• Artikelnr.: 68163237

Autorenporträt

Professor Margaret Mullett is Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies, and of the AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History, at the Queen's University Belfast, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; 25 years of Byzantine letters, literacy and literature.
Part 1 Letters: The classical tradition in the Byzantine letter; The
language of diplomacy; Originality in the Byzantine letter: the case of
exile; 1098 and all that: Theophylact bishop of Semnea and the Alexian
reconquest of Anatolia. Part 2 Literary Practices: Writing in early
medieval Byzantium; Food for the spirit and a light for the road: reading
the Bible in the Life of Cyril Phileotes. Part 3 The Literary Process:
Aristocracy and patronage in the literary circles of Comnenian
Constantinople;The madness of genre; Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of
performance: Byzantium and now; Novelisation in Byzantium: narrative after
the revival of fiction. Part 4 Literary Texts: Alexios I Komnenos and
imperial renewal; The imperial vocabulary of Alexios I Komnenos; In peril
on the sea: travel genres and the unexpected; Literary biography and
historical genre in the Life of Cyril Phileotes by Nicholas Kataskepenos.
Part 5 Literature: Dancing with deconstructionists in the gardens of the
Muses: new literary history vs ?; New literary history and the history of
Byzantine literature: a worthwhile endeavour?; Additional notes and
comments; Errata; Index.