A Companion to Byzantine Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39108-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1031 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World

This book offers the first complete overview of Byzantine poetry from the 4th to
the 15th century. By bringing together 22 scholars, it explores the development
of poetic trends and the interaction between poetry and society throughout the
Byzantine millennium; it addresses a wide range of issues concerning
the writing and reading of poetry (such as style, language, metrics, function,
and circulation); and it surveys a large number of texts
by looking closely at their place within the social and cultural milieus of their
authors. Overall, the volume aims to enhance our understanding of Byzantine poetry and
shed light on its important place in Byzantine literary culture.

Contributors are Eirini Afentoulidou, Gianfranco Agosti, Roderick Beaton, Floris Bernard, Carolina Cupane, Kristoffel Demoen, Ivan Drpic, Jürgen Fuchsbauer, Antonia Giannouli, Martin Hinterberger, Wolfram Hörandner, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Marc Lauxtermann, Ingela Nilsson, Emilie van Opstall, Andreas Rhoby, Kurt Smolak, Foteini Spingou, Maria Tomadaki, Ioannis Vassis, Nikos Zagklas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hörandner, Wolfram

Rhoby, Andreas

Zagklas, Nikolaos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsX

Notes on Contributors X

Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction

Nikos Zagklas

Part 1: Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style

1 Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts

Marc D. Lauxtermann

2 The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms, and “Mixed Language”

Martin Hinterberger

3 From Hexameters to Fifteen-syllable Verse

Michael Jeffreys

4 Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric

Elizabeth Jeffreys

Part 2: Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus

5 Late Antique Poetry and its Reception

Gianfranco Agosti

6 George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry?

Ioannis Vassis

7 Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites

Kristoffel Demoen

8 John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000

Emilie van Opstall and Maria Tomadaki

9 The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries

Floris Bernard

10 “How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?” Poetry in the Komnenian Period (1081–1204)

Nikos Zagklas

11 Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th century)

Andreas Rhoby

Part 3: Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond

12 “Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium

Kurt Smolak

13 Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World

Eirini Afentoulidou and Jürgen Fuchsbauer

14 Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200)

Carolina Cupane

Part 4: Transmission and Circulation

15 Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry

Foteini Spingou

16 Byzantine Book Epigrams

Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen

17 Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object, and Beholder

Ivan Drpic and Andreas Rhoby

Part 5: Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium

18 Teaching with Verse in Byzantium

Wolfram Hörandner

19 Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers

Antonia Giannouli

20 The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse

Ingela Nilsson

21 Byzantine Verse Romances

Roderick Beaton

General Bibliography

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfram Hörandner, Ph.D. (1966), University of Vienna, is Emeritus
Professor of Byzantine literature. He has published extensively on Byzantine
literature. His main publications include Theodoros Prodromos, Historische Gedichte
(1974) and Der Prosarhythmus in der rhetorischen Literatur der Byzantiner (1981)

Andreas Rhoby, PD Ph.D. (2000), University of Vienna, works at the Austrian
Academy of Sciences, where he is deputy head of the Division of Byzantine
Research. He is also Privatdozent at the University of Vienna. His major
publication is the 4-volume corpus on Byzantine inscriptional epigrams.

Nikos Zagklas, Ph.D. (2014), University of Vienna, is Assistant Professor at
the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna.
He has published on ­Theodore Prodromos and Byzantine poetry (especially of
the 12th century).