The culture of Latin Greece : : seven tales from the 13th and 14th centuries / / Vladimir Agrigoroaei.

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 86
• VerfasserIn: Agrigoroaei, Vladimir,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 86.; Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (763 pages)

The artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece cannot be analysed by a conventional approach. Follow the author and the historical protagonists of his tales in a journey through a fragmentary shape-shifting corpus, from the medieval translations of Aristotle to pornographic animal tales carved on church columns. The book explains how art and literature were intertwined, how they evolved from the times of Nicetas Choniates to those of Isabella of Lusignan, and under what influences. It is based on the assumption that history is a form of literature, as they both share an “arbitrary distribution of emphasis” (Isaiah Berlin).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Copyright page / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Acknowledgements / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Figures / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Maps / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The First Tale How This Book Came to Be / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The Second Tale The Old Man on the Island / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The Third Tale Besides Translating Aristotle / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The Fourth Tale A Lady’s Change of Heart / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The Fifth Tale Se una notte d’inverno un Spirituale … / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The Sixth Tale Melusine Goes to Mystras / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- The Seventh Tale The Notary Learnt Too Much / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Epilogue / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Figures / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Bibliography / Vladimir Agrigoroaei -- Index / Vladimir Agrigoroaei.