Marina Bazzani the Art of Requesting in the Poetry of Manuel Philes

Middle and Tardily Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts

A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.)

7+413 p., 1 b/west ill., 156 10 234 mm, 2018
ISBN: 978-2-503-57886-half-dozen
Languages: English
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This book aims at a better understanding of middle and late Byzantine verse by offering both studies on specific authors and their texts and editions of then far unknown texts.

It is only in recent years that Byzantine verse – 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 tardily Byzantium.Though many collections of poems are available in modern critical editions, a considerable corporeality of texts notwithstanding remains completely unedited or accessible just in outdated and unreliable editions. Moreover, many works of this period take never been studied thoroughly with regard to their cultural bear upon on society. Bug of authorship and patronage, function, literary motives, generic qualities, and manuscripts still wait further report.

This volume aims to take a footstep to fill up this gap. Although it includes studies on poetry from the early tenth to the fifteenth centuries, the master focus is placed on the Komnenian and Palaeologan times. Information technology presents editions of completely unknown texts, such as a twelfth-century cycle of epigrams on John Klimax. It includes studies on diverse types of poetry, including didactic, occasional, and even poetry written for liturgical purposes. Past analysing these works and placing them within their literary and socio-cultural context, we can describe conclusions about the cultural tastes of the Byzantines and acquire a more nuanced picture show of middle and belatedly Byzantine poesy.

Andreas Rhoby is deputy head of the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian University of Sciences and Privatdozent at the University of Vienna. He focuses on the study of Byzantine poetry, inscriptions and cultural history.

Nikos Zagklas is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Literature at the Department of Byzantine and Mod Greek Studies of the University of Vienna. His inquiry interests are concerned with Byzantine literary culture, with a particular interest for poesy, didactic works, and the relationship between prose and poesy.

Tabular array of Contents

Nikos Zagklas & Andreas Rhoby, Introduction

Role I: Studies in the Poesy of the Heart and Tardily Byzantine Period
Section I: Forms, Perceptions & Functions

Floris Bernard, Rhythm in the Byzantine Dodecasyllable: Practices and Perceptions
Nikos Zagklas, Metrical Polyeideia and Generic Innovation in the 12th Century: The Multimetric Cycles of Occasional Poetry

Department II: Authors & Texts

Maria Tomadaki, The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature in the Iambic Poems of John Geometres
Przemysław Marciniak & Katia Warcaba, Theodore Prodromos' Katomyomachia as a Byzantine Version of Mock-Heroic Epic
Andreas Rhoby, The Poesy of Theodore Balsamon: Form and Role
Krystina Kubina, Manuel Philes - A Begging Poet? Requests, Messages and Problems of Genre Definition
Marina Bazzani, The Art of Requesting in the Poetry of Manuel Philes

Section Iii: Hymnography & Its Contexts

Theodora Antonopoulou, Purple Hymnography? The Canons Attributed to Emperor Constantine Vii Porphyrogenitus. With the disquisitional edition of the Offset Canon on St John Chrysostom
Dimitrios Skrekas, Translations and Paraphrases of Liturgical Poesy in Late Byzantine Thessalonica

Part Ii: The Editio princeps of a Completely Unknown Text

Renaat Meesters and Rachele Ricceri, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax: Editio princeps, Translation and Commentary
Renaat Meesters, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax: A Brief Assay

Review

"(…) the nowadays volume constitutes an important drove of well-written essays rich in ideas, which will surely contribute to the further development of this field (…) of class, proficient critical editions are always valuable and deeply appreciated." (Konstantinos Chryssogelos, in BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA, 31 2021, p. 441-442)

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