| Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts Volume One Contributor(s): Lauxtermann, Marc D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 370013150X ISBN-13: 9783700131502 Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press OUR PRICE: $142.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Series: Wiener Byzantinistische Studien |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.6" W x 9.4" (1.60 lbs) 389 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The two-volume study Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres. Texts and Contexts, constitutes a survey of Byzantine poems written between ca. 600 and 1000, with particular emphasis on the historical contexts that generated these texts. It is a study of literary genres set against the background of historical developments that changed Byzantine culture fundamentally. In this first volume the author deals with contextual and textual problems of Byzantine poetry (chapters 1-3) and treats various kinds of the Byzantine epigram (chapters 4-9). The book concludes with 10 appendices that present the material evidence: manuscripts and verse inscriptions. \nThe book is of interest to historians, art historians and philologists; as all the texts are translated, it can also be read by scholars with little or no knowledge of Byzantine Greek. |
