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Author:   Krystina Kubina ,  Alexander Riehle
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9780367759971

ISBN 10:   0367759977
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   05 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Notes on Texts and Translations Abbreviations Introduction Krystina Kubina and Alexander Riehle PART 1: ESSAYS 1 Epigrams and Verse Letters in Palladas and Gregory of Nazianzos Christos Simelidis 2 Epigrammata epistulam faciunt? Christopher of Mitylene to His Friends Emilie van Opstall 3 Epistolarity in Twelfth-century Byzantine Poetry: Singing Praises and Asking Favors in absentia Nikolaos Zagklas 4 Functions of Letters in Verse and Prose: A Comparison of Manuel Philes and Theodore Hyrtakenos Krystina Kubina 5 Francesco Filelfo’s Verse Letters: Form, Content, and Function Andreas Rhoby PART 2: ANTHOLOGY Texts Palladas (1–2) Christos Simelidis Gregory of Nazianzos (3–5) Christos Simelidis Agathias — Paul the Silentiary (6–7) Delphine Lauritzen Dioskoros of Aphrodito (8) Alexander Riehle Theodore the Stoudite (9) Alexander Riehle Theodore and Theophanes Graptos — Methodios (10) Alexander Riehle Anonymous of Sola (11) Floris Bernard John Mauropous (12) Floris Bernard Michael Psellos (13) Floris Bernard Christopher of Mitylene (14–20) Emilie van Opstall (14–19) Przemysław Marciniak and Katarzyna Warcaba (20) Theophylaktos of Ohrid (21–22) Nikos Zagklas Theodore Prodromos (23–25) Nikos Zagklas Manganeios Prodromos (26–29) Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys Michael Hagiotheodorites (30) Przemysław Marciniak and Katarzyna Warcaba Pseudo-Psellos (31) Floris Bernard Euthymios Tornikes (32) Nikos Zagklas Libistros and Rhodamne (33–34) Panagiotis A. Agapitos Manuel Philes (35–45) Krystina Kubina Stephanos Sgouropoulos (46) Krystina Kubina Erotopaignia (47) Alexander Riehle Gerardos (48) Alexander Riehle Francesco Filelfo (49) Andreas Rhoby Angelo Poliziano (50–55) Andreas Rhoby John Clajus (56) Andreas Rhoby Commentary Figures Bibliography General Index Index of Manuscripts and Papyri

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Krystina Kubina is a research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She specializes in late Byzantine poetry and has published a monograph on the fourteenth century poet Manuel Philes (Die enkomiastische Dichtung des Manuel Philes. Form und Funktion des literarischen Lobes in der frühen Palaiologenzeit, Berlin 2020). Alexander Riehle is Assistant Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He specializes in the rhetorical and epistolary literature of late Byzantium. He is the editor of A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Leiden 2020) and is currently preparing an edition and translation of the letter-collections of Nikephoros Choumnos (anticipated 2021).

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