Reading The Late Byzantine Romance

Author : Adam J. Goldwyn,Ingela Nilsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316646548

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Reading the Late Byzantine Romance by Adam J. Goldwyn,Ingela Nilsson Pdf

The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials and tribulations of aristocratic young lovers. This volume brings together leading scholars of Byzantine literature to examine the corpus afresh and aims to be the definitive work on the subject, suitable for scholars and students of all levels. It offers interdisciplinary and transnational approaches which demonstrate the aesthetic and cultural value of these works in their own right and their centrality to the medieval and early modern Greek, European and Mediterranean literary traditions. From a historical perspective, the volume also emphasizes how the romances represent a turning point in the history of Greek letters: they are a repository of both ancient and medieval oral poetic and novelistic traditions and yet are often considered the earliest works of Modern Greek literature.

Author : Ioannis Smarnakis,Zissis D. Ainalis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040021194

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The Late Byzantine Romance in Context by Ioannis Smarnakis,Zissis D. Ainalis Pdf

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike, specializing in or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature.

Author : Giannēs Smarnakēs,Zissis D. Ainalis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1032325682

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The Late Byzantine Romance in Context by Giannēs Smarnakēs,Zissis D. Ainalis Pdf

"This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the sixteenth century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike specializing or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature"--

Author : Clare Teresa M. Shawcross,Ida Toth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418416

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Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond by Clare Teresa M. Shawcross,Ida Toth Pdf

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.

Author : Michael Edward Stewart,David Alan Parnell,Conor Whately
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429633409

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The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium by Michael Edward Stewart,David Alan Parnell,Conor Whately Pdf

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; and Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early and Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire’s long life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004527089

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A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period by Anonim Pdf

Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Mati Meyer,Charis Messis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040043455

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium by Mati Meyer,Charis Messis Pdf

This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both modern theories and Byzantine perceptions, and considering multiple periods and religions (Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, and Jewish), it provides evidentiary textual and visual material support for an analysis of the two linked themes. Broadly, the essays demonstrate that gender and sexual constructs in Byzantium were porous. As a result, they expand our knowledge of not only how sex and gender were conceived and performed but also how ideas and practices shaped Byzantine life. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of late antique and Byzantine religion, history, culture, and art, who will find it a useful critical survey of current scholarship and one that shines new light in their areas of research. The focus on issues of gender and sexuality may also be of interest to individuals concerned with Eastern Mediterranean culture, as well as to the broader public. Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Panagiotis A. Agapitos,Ole Langwitz Smith
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Byzantine literature
ISBN : 8772891637

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The Study of Medieval Greek Romance by Panagiotis A. Agapitos,Ole Langwitz Smith Pdf

Study of Medieval Greek Romance

Author : Stratis Papaioannou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199351763

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature by Stratis Papaioannou Pdf

In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.

Author : Leslie Brubaker,Rebecca Darley,Daniel Reynolds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624489

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Global Byzantium by Leslie Brubaker,Rebecca Darley,Daniel Reynolds Pdf

Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old ‘Byzantium and its neighbours’ theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium – as a concept – explicitly endorses is comparative methodology. Global Byzantium needs also to address three further issues: cultural capital, the importance of the local, and the empire’s strategic geographical location. Cultural capital: in past decades it was fashionable to define Byzantium as culturally superior to western Christian Europe, and Byzantine influence was a key concept, especially in art historical circles. This concept has been increasingly criticised, and what we now see emerging is a comparative methodology that relies on the concept of ‘competitive sharing’, not blind copying but rather competitive appropriation. The importance of the local is equally critical. We need to talk more about what the Byzantines saw when they ‘looked out’, and what others saw in Byzantium when they ‘looked in’ and to think about how that impacted on our, very post-modern, concepts of globalism. Finally, we need to think about the empire’s strategic geographical position: between the fourth and the thirteenth centuries, if anyone was travelling internationally, they had to travel across (or along the coasts of) the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was thus a crucial intermediary, for good or for ill, between Europe, Africa, and Asia – effectively, the glue that held the Christian world together, and it was also a critical transit point between the various Islamic polities and the Christian world.

Author : Panagiotis A. Agapitos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800855451

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The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne by Panagiotis A. Agapitos Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523005

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Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe by Anonim Pdf

Compensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies. It offers a diversity of topics and scientific approaches, articulated by up-to-date interdisciplinary dialogue, and reflects on the future challenges of Byzantine spatial studies.

Author : Stavroula Constantinou,Mati Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.