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Author: John William Nesbitt Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004129757 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 304
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The volume presents students and researchers with texts and translations of Byzantine letters, treatises, speeches, teaching aids, and instructional guides.
Author: John William Nesbitt Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004129757 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 304
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The volume presents students and researchers with texts and translations of Byzantine letters, treatises, speeches, teaching aids, and instructional guides.
Author: Aglae Pizzone Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 1614515190 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.
Author: Stratis Papaioannou Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199351775 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 816
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This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE). In twenty-five chapters composed by leading specialists, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature surveys the immense body of Greek literature produced from the fourth to the fifteenth century CE and advances a nuanced understanding of what "literature" was in Byzantium. This volume is structured in four sections. The first, "Materials, Norms, Codes," presents basic structures for understanding the history of Byzantine literature like language, manuscript book culture, theories of literature, and systems of textual memory. The second, "Forms," deals with the how Byzantine literature works: oral discourse and "text"; storytelling; rhetoric; re-writing; verse; and song. The third section ("Agents") focuses on the creators of Byzantine literature, both its producers and its recipients. The final section, entitled "Translation, Transmission, Edition," surveys the three main ways by which we access Byzantine Greek literature today: translations into other Byzantine languages during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts; and modern printed editions. The volume concludes with an essay that offers a view of the recent past--as well as the likely future--of Byzantine literary studies.
Author: Anthony Kaldellis Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674967402 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 309
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Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfth centuries CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republic recovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whose Greek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speaking “ancestors.” Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy is a misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With court proclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingship emerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacy of the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on the popularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite the stability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantine concept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the law and the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. The rebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, but an essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy.
Author: Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan Publisher: Variorum Publishing ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : de Pages : 340
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Professor Kazhdan's approach to the study of Byzantine texts is to see them as works created by humans, for humans and about humans, not as a system of imitative exercises on ancient or biblical topics and styles. When authors reused or adapted older models, he would ask why they did that and argues that in this opposition of traditional language and new content lies one of the keys to the understanding of Byzantine culture. This approach does not exclude the use of the texts as sources for what happened, and these articles demonstrate just how much can, with care, be extracted or deduced. However, his major aim has been to analyse the historical background, the social ideas and artistic approaches of Byzantine authors, as revealed in what they wrote. These authors include literary figures, and there are important studies on the intellectual culture of the later Empire, but the emphasis is more particularly on the often anonymous writers of saints lives and the 8th-10th centuries. The volume ends with an important section of additional notes and references and a detailed index.L'approche du professeur Kazhdan à l'étude des textes byzantins est de les considérer en tant qu'oeuvres crées par des êtres humains, au sujet d'êtres humains et s'adressant à des êtres humains et non en tant que modes d'exercices sur des thèmes et des styles anciens ou bibliques. Lorsque des auteurs ré-adaptaient ou ré-utilisaient d'anciens modèles, le professeur Kazhdan n'a jamais manqué de questionner la chose et d'affirmer qu'il y existe, au travers de cette opposition du langage traditionnel à un nouveau contenu, une des clefs permettant de comprendre la culture byzantine. Ceci n'exclue pas l'utilisation des textes en tant que sources factuelles et ces articles démontrent comment il est possible, avec soin, d'en extraire. Son propos a cependant été tout d'abord, d'analyser les contextes historiques, les idées sociales et les approches artistiques des auteurs byzantins. Parmi ceux-ci se trouvent des personnages littéraires et il y a d'importantes études sur la culture intellectuelle du Bas Empire; mais, l'accent est surtout mis sur les auteurs - le plus souvent anonymes - de vies des saints et sur la période allant du 8e au 10e siècle. Le volume se termine par une importante section de notes additionelles, ainsi qu'un index détaillé.
Author: Leonora Neville Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110866394X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 335
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This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiography, sweeping, fast-paced 'chronicle' type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical texts, it distills the results of complex, multi-lingual, specialist scholarship into clear explanations of the basic information needed to approach each medieval Greek history. It provides a sound basis for further research on each text by describing what we know about the time of composition, content covered by the history, authorship, extant manuscripts, previous editions and translations, and basic bibliography. Even-handed explanations of scholarly debates give readers the information they need to assess controversies independently. A comprehensive introduction orients students and non-specialists to the traditions and methods of Byzantine historical writing. It will prove an invaluable timesaver for Byzantinists and an essential entry point for classicists, western medievalists, and students.
Author: Gregory Nagy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136066268 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 476
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Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics.
Author: James Morton Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198861141 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy is a historical study of manuscripts containing Byzantine canon law produced after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of the region persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule.
Author: John Burke Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900434473X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 249
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This is volume 1 of the proceedings of the Byzantine Macedonia conference held in Melbourne in 1995. These nineteen papers are invaluable to anyone interested in the Macedonian heritage or in the economy, administration, history and representation of Macedonia during the course of the Byzantine empire. Vol. 2, Byzantine Macedonia: Art, Architecture, Music and Hagiography, edited by R. Scott and J. Burke, is published separately by the National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Author: Leonora Neville Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521838658 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
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The imperial government over the central provinces of the Byzantine Empire was sovereign and, at the same time, apathetic, dealing effectively with a narrow set of objectives, chiefly collecting revenue and maintaining imperial sovereignty. Outside of these spheres, action needed to be solicited from imperial officials, leaving vast opportunities for local people to act independently without legal stricture or fear of imperial involvement. In the absence of imperial intervention provincial households competed with each other for control over community decisions. The emperors exercised just enough strength at the right times to prevent the leaders of important households in the core provinces from becoming rulers themselves. Membership in a successful household, wealth, capacity for effective violence and access to the imperial court were key factors that allowed one to act with authority. This book examines in detail the mechanisms provincial households used to acquire and dispute authority.
Author: John William Nesbitt
Author: John William Nesbitt
Author: Aglae Pizzone
Author: Stratis Papaioannou
Author: Anthony Kaldellis
Author: Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan
Author: Leonora Neville
Author: Gregory Nagy
Author: James Morton
Author: John Burke
Author: Leonora Neville