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Reading Michael Psellos /
The papers of this volume originated in a workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in February 2004 to discuss the variety of ways one might read Michael Psellos (1018-after 1081- ). One of most original figures of Byzantine intellectual history, Psellos was a polymath whose range extended from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Colección: | Medieval Mediterranean ;
v. 61. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The papers of this volume originated in a workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in February 2004 to discuss the variety of ways one might read Michael Psellos (1018-after 1081- ). One of most original figures of Byzantine intellectual history, Psellos was a polymath whose range extended from rhetoric and philosophy to law and medicine. While his history of his own times, the "Chronographia", is one of the best known works of Byzantine literature, very little else of his large body of work has been translated. It is the intention of this volume to encourage a wider awareness of Psellos' many interests by offering readings of his original texts from a variety of scholarly perspectives |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9047409809 9789047409809 1281399434 9781281399434 9786611399436 6611399437 |