Drosilla And Charikles

Author : Nikētas (ho Eugeneianos)
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780865165366

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Drosilla and Charikles by Nikētas (ho Eugeneianos) Pdf

Known for its sensitive representation of the enduring love of a young man and woman, Drosilla and Charikles is one of four existing Byzantine Greek novels, and the first one to be translated into English. This Bilingual edition features: Introduction Aids to reading comprehension: Alphabetical list of characters, List of characters by relationship, List of gods and legendary figures, Select places and people Greek text with facing English translation Explanatory notes on the English translation Bibliography.

Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134810291

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The Medieval Greek Romance by Roderick Beaton Pdf

First published by CUP in 1989, The Medieval Greek Romance provides basic information for the non-specialist about Greek fiction during the period 1071-1453, as well as proposing new solutions to problems that have vexed previous generations of scholars. Roderick Beaton applies sophisticated methods of literary analysis to the material, and the bridges of the artificial gap which has separated `Byzantine'literature, in a form of ancient Greek as both homogenous and of a high level of literary sophistication. Throughout, consideration is given to relations and interconnections with similar literature in western Europe. As most of the texts discussed are not available in English translation, the argument is illustrated by lucid plot summaries and extensive quotation (accompanied by literal English renderings). For this edition, The Medieval Greek Romance has been revised throughout and expanded with the addition of an `Afterword' which assesses and responds to recent work on the subject.

Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442636804

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Reading the Middle Ages, Volume II by Barbara H. Rosenwein Pdf

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region. This volume spans the period c.900 to c.1500.

Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442636767

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Reading the Middle Ages by Barbara H. Rosenwein Pdf

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region. The stunning "Reading through Looking" color insert, which showcases medieval artifacts and introduces how historians study medieval material culture, has been expanded to include essays on weapons and warfare by medievalist Riccardo Cristiani. New maps, timelines, and genealogies aid readers in following knotty but revealing sources. On the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com), students have access to hundreds of Questions for Reflection.

Author : Vladimir Agrigoroaei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004524224

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The Culture of Latin Greece by Vladimir Agrigoroaei Pdf

The author and six historical characters of his own choosing tell tales and guide you through the artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece. They show you patterns, influences, and dissimilar evolutions in what appears to be a 13th-14th century cultural conundrum.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307728

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Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This volume highlights the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean by combining in a comprehensive overview popular eastern tales along with their Greek adaptations and examining Byzantine love tales, both learned and vernacular, alongside their Persian counterparts and the later adaptations of Western romances.

Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030788575

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Witness Literature in Byzantium by Adam J. Goldwyn Pdf

This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates’ History (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789077922088

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Ancient Narrative Volume 4 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319692036

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Byzantine Ecocriticism by Adam J. Goldwyn Pdf

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.

Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441133366

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The Novel: An Alternative History by Steven Moore Pdf

Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.

Author : Suzanne Macalister
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135086435

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Dreams and Suicides by Suzanne Macalister Pdf

This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.

Author : Margaret Alexiou
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474403818

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Greek Laughter and Tears by Margaret Alexiou Pdf

Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditionsWhat makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music?Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.Key featuresIncludes an international cast of 25 distinguished contributors Prominence is given to performative arts and to interactions with other cultures Transitions from Late Antiquity to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the Renaissance, form focal points from which contributors look backwards, forwards and sidewaysHighlights the variety, audacity and quality of the finest Byzantine works and the extent to which they anticipated the renaissance

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004392885

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A Companion to Byzantine Poetry by Anonim Pdf

This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.

Author : Brian Oliver Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004400948

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The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander by Brian Oliver Murdoch Pdf

A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.

Author : Stavroula Constantinou,Mati Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319960388

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Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture by Stavroula Constantinou,Mati Meyer Pdf

This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies while at the same time contributing to the emerging field of Byzantine emotion studies. It offers the reader an array of perspectives encompassing various sources and media, including historiography, hagiography, theological writings, epistolography, erotic literature, art objects, and illuminated manuscripts. The ten chapters cover a time span ranging from the early to the late Byzantine periods. This diversity is secured by an expanded and enriched exploration of the collection’s unifying theme of gendered emotions. The scope and breadth of the chapters also reflect the ways in which Byzantine gender and emotion have been studied thus far, while at the same time offering novel approaches that challenge established opinions in Byzantine studies.