The Oxford handbook of Byzantine literature /
Byzantine literary studies, despite their long scholarly tradition, remain a fragile enterprise, just as Byzantine Greek literature continues to be a relatively exotic domain. The present volume, the first of its kind in English, maps this literature and the field of its study, aiming to provide a t...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- What is Byzantine literature? An introduction / Stratis Papaioannou
- Part I. Materials, norms, codes: Language / Martin Hinterberger
- Book culture / Filippo Ronconi and Stratis Papaioannou
- Theory of literature / Stratis Papaioannou
- Biblical hermeneutics / Fr. Maximos Constas
- ) Memory : selection, citation, commonplace / Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
- The reception of Classical literature and ancient myth / Anthony Kaldellis
- Translations I: From other languages into Greek: Latin / Réka Forrai
- Syriac / Pablo Ubierna
- Arabic / Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
- Georgian / Nikoloz Aliksidze
- Neo-Latin languages / Carolina Cupane
- Part II. Forms: Orality and textuality (with an appendix on the Byzantine conceptions) / Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
- Narrative: theory and practice / Ingela Nilsson
- Rhetorical practice / Alexander Riehle
- Rhetorical figures / Vessela Valiavitcharska
- A rhetorical genre(?): the invective (9th-15th c.) / Ioannis Polemis
- Rewriting / Stephanos Efthymiadis
- Poetry? / Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen
- Inscriptions / Ivan Drpić
- Metrics and prose rhythm / Wolfram Hörandner and Andreas Rhoby
- Sacred song / Stratis Papaioannou
- Recitation and chant: types of notation, modes of expression / Sandra Martani
- Part III. Agents: Authors (with an excursus on Symeon Metaphrastes) / Stratis Papaioannou
- Readers and their pleasures / Stratis Papaioannou
- Part IV. Translation, transmission, edition: Translations II: Greek texts into other languages (4th-15th c.): Latin / Réka Forrai
- Coptic / Arietta Papaconstantinou
- Syriac / Pablo Ubierna
- Armenian / Theo Maarten van Lint
- Georgian / Nikoloz Aleksidze
- Arabic / Alexander Treiger
- Slavic / Sergey Ivanov and Anatolii Turilov
- Modes of manuscript transmission (9th-15th c.) / Inmaculada Pérez Martín
- Textual criticism / Caroline Macé
- Postscript: Thoughts on the recent past and the future of Byzantine literary studies / Margaret Mullett.