Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Shawcross, Teresa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108304900
• Artikelnr.: 54229740

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to books, readers, and reading; I. Byzantium: a bookish world
Teresa Shawcross; II. Modern encounters with Byzantine texts and their
reading publics Ida Toth; Part I. Love for the Written Word: Section 1. The
Emotions of Reading: 1. John Mauropous and the benefits of reading Marina
Bazzani; 2. The autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios
Michael Angold; Section 2. Centre and Margins: 3. The role of the speeches
of John the Oxite in Komnenian court politics Judith R. Ryder; 4. The
liturgical poetics of an elite religious confraternity Paul Magdalino; 5.
Manuscript notes and the Black Death in rural Cyprus Tassos Papacostas;
Part II. Contact with a Living Culture: Section 3. The Power of Rhetoric:
6. Ancient Greek rhetorical theory and Byzantine discursive politics: John
Sikeliotes on Hermogenes Panagiotis Roilos; 7. Memoirs as manifesto: the
rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos Jonathan Shepard; 8. Performative reading
in the late Byzantine theatron Niels Gaul; Section 4. Religious Texts: 9.
The religious world of John Malalas David M. Gwynn; 10. Oikonomia in the
hymns of Romanos the Melode Johannes Koder; 11. Quotation and allusion in
Symeon the New Theologian Manolis S. Patedakis; 12. Scriptural citation in
Andronikos Kamateros Alessandra Bucossi; Section 5. Secular Texts: 13.
Aristocratic family narratives in twelfth-century Byzantium Peter
Frankopan; 14. Historiography, epic and the textual transmission of
imperial values: Liudprand's Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites Günter
Prinzing; 15. Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine romance Tale of Troy
Ulrich Moennig; Part III. Communication and Influence: Section 6.
Educational Practices: 16. Late Byzantine school teaching through the
iambic canons and their paraphrase Dimitrios Skrekas; Section 7. Text and
Image: 17. Eros, literature and the Veroli Casket Liz James; 18. Object,
text and performance in four Komnenian poems Margaret Mullett; 19. Textual
and visual representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin
West Maja Kominko; Section 8. Interlingual Circulation and Transmission:
20. Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian literary tradition in Byzantium
Tim Greenwood; 21. Bilingual reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti
Wiscardi James Howard-Johnston; 22. Transplanting culture: from Greek novel
to medieval romance Roderick Beaton; Part IV. Modern Reading as Textual
Archaeology: Section 9. Traces of Authorship: 23. Anonymous textual
survivals from Late Antiquity Fiona K. Haarer; 24. Authorship and the
Letters of Theodore Daphnopates John Duffy; 25. Authorship revisited:
language and metre in the Ptochoprodromika Marjolijne C. Janssen and Marc
D. Lauxtermann; Section 10. Recovered Languages: 26. The lexicon of horses'
colours in learned and vernacular texts Erich Trapp; 27. Multilingualism
and translation in the edition of vernacular texts Manolis Papathomopoulos;
Afterword: reading and hearing in Byzantium Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael
Jeffreys.