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Author:   Krystina Kubina
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   139
Weight:   0.933kg
ISBN:  

9789004699670

ISBN 10:   9004699678
Pages:   474
Publication Date:   04 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium  Krystina Kubina Part 2: Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning 2 Worlds Apart?  Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared  Martin Hinterberger 3 Slithering across Verse  The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes’ Poetry  Federica Scognamiglio 4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos’ Rhetoric  A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions  Florin Leonte Part 3: Praise, Power, and Patronage 5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos  Manuel Holobolos’ Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts  Cosimo Paravano 6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes  Daniil Pleshak 7 Poetry from the Provinces  John Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos  Marina Bazzani 8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza  Ugo Mondini Part 4: Storytelling in Verse 9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium  Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos  Julián Bértola 10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights  Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad  Alberto Ravani 11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?  A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque  Brendan Osswald Part 5: Poetry and Instruction 12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers  Prose and Poetry at Work  Giulia M. Paoletti 13 Verses of Great Beauty  An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems  Marc D. Lauxtermann 14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?  On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond  Theodora Antonopoulou Index

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Krystina Kubina, Ph.D. (2018), Austrian Academy of Sciences, is a research associate at the Institute for Medieval Research. She has published widely on late Byzantine literary culture, including books on epistolary poetry (2021) and the poet Manuel Philes (2020).

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