A companion to Byzantine poetry / / edited by Wolfram Horandner, Andreas Rhoby, Nikos Zagklas.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hörandner, Wolfram,; Rhoby, Andreas,; Zagklas, Nikos,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (590 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction /; Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style --; Texts and Contexts /; The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms, and “Mixed Language” /; From Hexameters to Fifteen-Syllable Verse /; Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric /; Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus --; Late Antique Poetry and Its Reception /; George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry? /; Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites /; John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000 /; The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries /; “How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?”: Poetry in the Komnenian Period (1081–1204) /; Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th Century) /; Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond --; “Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium /; Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World /; Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200) /; Transmission and Circulation --; Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry /; Byzantine Book Epigrams /; Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object, and Beholder /; Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium --; Teaching with Verse in Byzantium /; Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers /; The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse /; Byzantine Verse Romances /; Back Matter --; General Bibliography --; General Index --; Manuscript Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004392882
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Wolfram Horandner, Andreas Rhoby, Nikos Zagklas.

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.