Reading Michael Psellos / / edited by Charles Barber, David Jenkins.
The papers of this volume originated in a workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in February 2004 to discuss the variety of ways one might read Michael Psellos (1018-after 1081?). One of most original figures of Byzantine intellectual history, Psellos was a polymath whose range extended from...
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| Superior document: | The Medieval Mediterranean ; 61 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Medieval Mediterranean ;
61. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 255 p. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- 1. Dealing with the Psellos Corpus: From Allatius to Westerink and the Bibliotheca Teubneriana // John Duffy
- 2. Imagery in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos // Antony R. Littlewood
- 3. Michael Psellos in a Hagiographical Landscape: The Life of St. Auxentios and the Encomion of Symeon the Metaphrast // Elizabeth A. Fisher
- 4. A Twist of Plot: Psellos, Heliodorus and Narratology // Christopher A. McLaren
- 5. Animated Statues: Aesthetics and Movement // Stratis Papaioannou
- 6. Living Painting, or the Limits of Pointing? Glancing at Icons with Michael Psellos // Charles Barber
- 7. Psellos' Conceptual Precision // David Jenkins
- 8. The Writing of Dreams: A Note on Psellos' Funeral Oration for his Mother // Christine Angelidi
- 9. Attaleiates as a Reader of Psellos // Dimitri Krallis
- 10. Michael Psellos' De Daemonibus in the Renaissance // Darin Hayton
- 11. Thoughts on the Future of Psellos-Studies, with Attention to his Mother's Encomium // Anthony Kaldellis
- Bibliography
- Index.