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Poetry in Late Byzantium
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 139
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The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire’s final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing together studies on texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople and from court to school, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to Homeric language. It thus offers a reference work to a much-neglected but rich textual material that is as varied as it was potent in the sociocultural contexts of its times.
Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.
Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.
Krystina Kubina, Ph.D. (2018), Austrian Academy of Sciences, is a research associate at the Institute for Medieval Research. She has published widely on late Byzantine literary culture, including books on epistolary poetry (2021) and the poet Manuel Philes (2020).
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium
Krystina Kubina
2 Worlds Apart?
Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared
Martin Hinterberger
3 Slithering across Verse
The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes’ Poetry
Federica Scognamiglio
4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos’ Rhetoric
A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions
Florin Leonte
5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos
Manuel Holobolos’ Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts
Cosimo Paravano
6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes
Daniil Pleshak
7 Poetry from the Provinces
John Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos
Marina Bazzani
8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza
Ugo Mondini
9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium
Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos
Julián Bértola
10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights
Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad
Alberto Ravani
11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?
A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque
Brendan Osswald
12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers
Prose and Poetry at Work
Giulia M. Paoletti
13 Verses of Great Beauty
An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems
Marc D. Lauxtermann
14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?
On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond
Theodora Antonopoulou
Index
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium
Krystina Kubina
Part 2: Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning
2 Worlds Apart?
Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared
Martin Hinterberger
3 Slithering across Verse
The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes’ Poetry
Federica Scognamiglio
4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos’ Rhetoric
A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions
Florin Leonte
Part 3: Praise, Power, and Patronage
5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos
Manuel Holobolos’ Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts
Cosimo Paravano
6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes
Daniil Pleshak
7 Poetry from the Provinces
John Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos
Marina Bazzani
8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza
Ugo Mondini
Part 4: Storytelling in Verse
9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium
Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos
Julián Bértola
10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights
Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad
Alberto Ravani
11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?
A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque
Brendan Osswald
Part 5: Poetry and Instruction
12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers
Prose and Poetry at Work
Giulia M. Paoletti
13 Verses of Great Beauty
An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems
Marc D. Lauxtermann
14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?
On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond
Theodora Antonopoulou
Index
The book addresses scholars and (research) students in the fields of Byzantine Studies, Medieval Studies, Classics, and Comparative Literary Studies.