Fictional storytelling in the medieval eastern Mediterranean and beyond / / edited by Carolina Cupane, Bettina Kronung.
This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (550 pages) :; color illustrations. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Medieval Fictional Story-Telling in the Eastern Mediterranean (8th–15th centuries AD): Historical and Cultural Context / Carolina Cupane and Bettina Krönung
- 1 Mapping the Roots: The Novel in Antiquity / Massimo Fusillo
- 2 Romantic Love in Rhetorical Guise: The Byzantine Revival of the Twelfth Century / Ingela Nilsson
- 3 In the Mood of Love: Love Romances in Medieval Persian Poetry and their Sources / Julia Rubanovich
- 4 In the Realm of Eros: The Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance – Original Texts / Carolina Cupane
- 5 The Adaptations of Western Sources by Byzantine Vernacular Romances / Kostas Yiavis
- 6 A Hero Without Borders: 1 Alexander the Great in Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek Tradition / Ulrich Moennig
- 7 A Hero Without Borders: 2 Alexander the Great in the Syriac and Arabic Tradition / Faustina C.W. Doufikar-Aerts
- 8 A Hero Without Borders: 3 Alexander the Great in the Medieval Persian Tradition / Julia Rubanovich
- 9 Tales of the Trojan War: Achilles and Paris in Medieval Greek Literature / Renata Lavagnini
- 10 Shared Spaces: 1 Digenis Akritis, the Two-Blood Border Lord / Corinne Jouanno
- 11 Shared Spaces: 2 Cross-border Warriors in the Arabian Folk Epic / Claudia Ott
- 12 The Literary Life of a Fictional Life: Aesop in Antiquity and Byzantium / Grammatiki A. Karla
- 13 Secundus the Silent Philosopher in the Ancient and Eastern Tradition / Oliver Overwien
- 14 Fighting with Tales: 1 The Arabic Book of Sindbad the Philosopher / Bettina Krönung
- 15 Fighting with Tales: 2 The Byzantine Book of Syntipas the Philosopher / Ida Toth
- 16 From the Desert to the Holy Mountain: The Beneficial Story of Barlaam and Ioasaph / Robert Volk
- 17 The Wisdom of the Beasts: The Arabic Book of Kalīla and Dimna and the Byzantine Book of Stephanites and Ichnelates / Bettina Krönung
- 18 “I grasp, oh, artist, your enigma, I grasp your drama”: Reconstructing the Implied Audience of the Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel / Panagiotis Roilos
- 19 “Let me tell you a wonderful tale”: Audience and Reception of the Vernacular Romances / Carolina Cupane
- General Bibliography / Carolina Cupane and Bettina Krönung
- General Index / Carolina Cupane and Bettina Krönung.