Byzantine authors : : literary activities and preoccupations : text and translations dedicated to the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides / / edited by John W. Nesbitt.

• Superior document: The Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 49
• TeilnehmendeR: Oikonomides, Nicolas.; Nesbitt, John W.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In honouring the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides, the contributors to this work offer a group of Greek texts and translations which reflect the wide interests of Byzantine authors and the varied genres to which they devoted their talents. It includes the military speeches of Constantine VII.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; Chapter One Cosmological Confectionary and Equal opportunity in the Eleventh Century. An Ekphrasis by Christopher of Mitylene (Poem 42); Chapter Two Two Teaching Texts from the Twelfth-Century Orphanotropheion; Chapter Three Alexander the Monk's Text of Helena's Discovery of the Cross (BHG 410); Chapter Four Elias the Monk. Friend of Psellos; Chapter Five Five Miracles of St. Menas; Chapter Six Elias of Heliopolis. The Life of an Eighth-Century Syrian Christian Saint; Chapter Seven Two Military Orations of Constantine VII

Chapter Eight A Byzantine Instructional Manual on Siege Defense: The De Obsidione toleranda. Introduction, English Translation and AnnotationsBibliography; Index