Poetry in Late Byzantium.

• Superior document: The Medieval Mediterranean Series ; v.139
• Author: Kubina, Krystina.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Medieval Mediterranean Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 pages)

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of poetry in the late Byzantine period, covering texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to classicizing.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium -- Part 2 Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning -- 2 Worlds Apart?: Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared -- 3 Slithering across Verse: The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes' Poetry -- 4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos' Rhetoric: A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions -- Part 3 Praise, Power, and Patronage -- 5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos: Manuel Holobolos' Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts -- 6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes -- 7 Poetry from the Provinces: John Katakalon's Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos -- 8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza -- Part 4 Storytelling in Verse -- 9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium: Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos -- 10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights: Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad -- 11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?: A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque -- Part 5 Poetry and Instruction -- 12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers: Prose and Poetry at Work -- 13 Verses of Great Beauty: An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems -- 14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?: On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond -- Index -- Back Cover.