Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium - Gador-Whyte, Sarah (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne)
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Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological themes in these kontakia. Through rhetorical techniques like dialogue, metaphor and vivid description, biblical stories and theological concepts are performed, adapted and vivified.

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Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological themes in these kontakia. Through rhetorical techniques like dialogue, metaphor and vivid description, biblical stories and theological concepts are performed, adapted and vivified.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Gador-Whyte is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University, based at St Patrick's Campus in Melbourne. She is a scholar of late antiquity and Byzantium and has published widely on Romanos, the cult of the Virgin, late antique historiography and religious conflict in late antiquity.