Poetry in Byzantine literature and society (1081-1204) : new texts, new approaches /
The twelfth century was one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history and this volume is the first to focus exclusively on its abundant poetic production. It explores the broader sociocultural tendencies that shaped twelfth-century literature in both prose and verse by examining the...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Imprints Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204)*
- Part I Poetry and Twelfth-Century Literary Culture
- 1 'The Force of Discourses': Literary Production in the Komnenian Era
- 2 Poetry and Theatre in Twelfth-Century Constantinople
- 3 Rethinking the Mixed Style in Twelfth-Century Poetry
- 4 'Wishing to Imitate the Poet': Prose and the Study of Ancient Poetry in the Twelfth Century
- Part II Poetry and the School
- 5 The Didactic Poetry of Niketas of Herakleia and the Use of Verse in Byzantine Teaching Practice
- 6 Teaching Grammar through Poetry: Tzetzes' Scholia on the Carmina Iliaca in Context
- 7 Of Mice and Cat: The Katomyomachia as Drama, Parody, School Text and Animal Tale
- 8 On the Roses: Reflections on a Neglected Poem by Nicholas Kallikles (Carm. 29 Romano)
- Part III Poetry, Patronage and Power
- 9 'Receiving Rich Gifts': Negotiating Power in the Metrical Paratexts of the Vossianus Gr. Q1
- 10 The Poetics of Patronage: Constructing the Image of the Patron in Dedicatory Epigrams in Monumental Painting of the Komnenian Period in Greece
- 11 David as Model for the Emperor and his Poet: Theodore Prodromos and John II Komnenos
- Part IV New Texts, New Interpretations
- 12 Manganeios Prodromos: His Life and Writings
- 13 An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians
- 14 Constantine Manasses' Astrological Poem: Editorial Problems, Quellenforschung and Cultural Context.