Metaphrasis In Byzantine Literature

Author : Anne Alwis,Martin Hinterberger,Elisabeth Schiffer
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 2503593445

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Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature by Anne Alwis,Martin Hinterberger,Elisabeth Schiffer Pdf

Throughout the centuries Byzantium's ambitious authors were conscious of the significance of literary registers for the reception of their texts. They deliberately made use of stylistic elements or refrained from using certain features in order to reach their target audience. There are certain groups of texts dating from various periods on which these stylistic elements can be tracked precisely by comparison of two or even more versions with their model text. Such examples of rewriting can be found particularly within genres with a broader audience appeal, namely hagiography and historiography. It is in both genres that we encounter metaphrastic processes, in terms of stylistic elaboration and in terms of stylistic simplification.0As well as stylistic reshaping, metaphrasis may also encompass the addition or removal of literary and/or thematic aspects. All these processes signify intent as well as authorial interpretation. Frequently, the ideological orientation of a text is refurbished through rewriting. Teasing out these strands for exploration helps to supply a potential wealth of information on the author (if known), cultural (social, religious, historical) context, and creative ability, as well as levels of education and literacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438453

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Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products by Anonim Pdf

This volume represents the first discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles treating hagiographical rewriting from various angles. The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts from late antiquity to late Byzantium.

Author : Christian Høgel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021679654

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Metaphrasis by Christian Høgel Pdf

Author : Marc Diederik Lauxtermann
Publisher : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056957916

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Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres by Marc Diederik Lauxtermann Pdf

The two-volume study Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres. Texts and Contexts, constitutes a survey of Byzantine poems written between ca. 600 and 1000, with particular emphasis on the historical contexts that generated these texts. It is a study of literary genres set against the background of historical developments that changed Byzantine culture fundamentally. In this first volume the author deals with contextual and textual problems of Byzantine poetry (chapters 1-3) and treats various kinds of the Byzantine epigram (chapters 4-9). The book concludes with 10 appendices that present the material evidence: manuscripts and verse inscriptions. \nThe book is of interest to historians, art historians and philologists; as all the texts are translated, it can also be read by scholars with little or no knowledge of Byzantine Greek.

Author : Stratis Papaioannou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199351770

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature by Stratis Papaioannou Pdf

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 : Andreas Rhoby,Nikos Zagklas
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Byzantine poetry
ISBN : 2503578861

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Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry by Andreas Rhoby,Nikos Zagklas Pdf

It is only in recent years that Byzantine poetry - a long-neglected aspect of Byzantine literature - has attracted the attention of philologists, literary and cultural historians. This holds true especially for the poetry written in middle and late Byzantium. Though many collections of poems are available in modern critical editions, a considerable amount of texts still remains completely unedited or accessible only in outdated and unreliable editions. Moreover, many works of this period have never been studied thoroughly with regard to their cultural impact on society. Issues of authorship and patronage, function, literary motives, generic qualities, and manuscripts still await further study. This volume aims to take a step to fill this gap. Although it includes studies on poetry from the early tenth to the fifteenth centuries, the main focus is placed on the Komnenian and Palaeologan times. It presents editions of completely unknown texts, such as a twelfth-century cycle of epigrams on John Klimax. It includes studies on various types of poetry, including didactic, occasional, and even poetry written for liturgical purposes. By analysing these works and placing them within their literary and socio-cultural context, we can draw conclusions about the cultural tastes of the Byzantines and acquire a more nuanced picture of middle and late Byzantine poetry.

Author : Klaas Bentein,Mark Janse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110614633

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Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek by Klaas Bentein,Mark Janse Pdf

Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later periods of the Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most important varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, basing themselves on a broad range of literary and documentary sources, and advancing a number of innovative methodologies. Close attention is paid to the linguistic features that characterize these varieties, with in-depth discussions of lexical, morpho-syntactic, orthographic, and metrical variation, as well as the interrelationship between these different types of variation. The volume thus offers valuable insights into the nature of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, laying the foundation for future studies of linguistic variation in these later stages of the language, while at the same time providing a point of comparison for Classical Greek scholarship

Author : Theodora Antonopoulou,Sofia Kotzabassi,Marina Loukaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501501623

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Myriobiblos by Theodora Antonopoulou,Sofia Kotzabassi,Marina Loukaki Pdf

This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New editions and analyses of texts and documents are included. The essays combine traditional scholarship with newer approaches, thus reflecting the current dynamics of the field.

Author : Juan Signes Codoñer,Inmaculada Pérez Martín
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0106766298

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Textual Transmission in Byzantium by Juan Signes Codoñer,Inmaculada Pérez Martín Pdf

A workshop was held in February 2012 in Madrid to stimulate a debate on textual criticism centred on the analysis of Byzantine texts and their modes of publication, rewriting and diffusion. The main aim was to provide future editors or scholars of the history of texts with a rich typology of concepts to guide their task, such as interpolation, paraphrasis, metaphrasis, quotation, collection, amplification or falsification, among others, but always taking into account that the principles upon which the discipline of textual criticism was founded needed to be reconsidered when dealing with the transmission of Byzantine texts. The present book brings together the different case studies produced by the participants of the workshop into a coherent whole and distributes them into five different sections according to their methodological approaches: 1. Language and style; 2. Virtual libraries and crossed readings; 3. Philosophical treatises and collections; 3.The sources of history; 5. Law texts and their reception. The results of the different approaches put forward by the contributors offer a broad palette of methodological strategies that are, to a great extent, complementary, and will, so we hope, illuminate the task of the future editors with new reflections.

Author : Andrea Massimo Cuomo,Erich Trapp
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Byzantine literature
ISBN : 250357713X

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Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek by Andrea Massimo Cuomo,Erich Trapp Pdf

How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question that the papers collected in this volume aim to address. The term historical sociolinguistics (HSL), a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, suggests that a language cannot be studied without its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of the communication which takes place between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts. These are seen as sets of shared signs used by authors to communicate to their audiences. This volume is divided into two distinct parts. In the first, Cuomo's and Bentein's papers aim to offer an overview on the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente's, Bianconi's, and Perez-Martin's papers will then show how to study the context of production and reception of Byzantine texts. These are followed by Horrocks' study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of the texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively.

Author : Margaret Mullett,Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351358491

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Managing Emotion in Byzantium by Margaret Mullett,Susan Ashbrook Harvey Pdf

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients’ concepts of emotion differ from our own, and Byzantinists have begun to consider emotions other than sorrow. It is time to look at what is distinctive about Byzantine emotion. This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, these papers address issues such as power, gender, rhetoric, or asceticism in Byzantine society through the lens of a single emotion or cluster of emotions. Contributors focus not only on the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition but also explore how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries. Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality. Managing Emotion in Byzantium will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in Byzantine perceptions of emotion, Byzantine Culture, and medieval perceptions of emotion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004395749

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Trends and Turning Points by Anonim Pdf

Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful.

Author : Stephanos Efthymiadis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317043959

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography by Stephanos Efthymiadis Pdf

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Ēlias Taxidēs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8836130771

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The Ekphraseis in the Byzantine Literature of the 12th Century. Ediz. Critica by Ēlias Taxidēs Pdf