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Reading in the Byzantine Empire and beyond /
"Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, reli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to books, readers, and reading. Byzantium: a bookish world / Teresa Shawcross
- Modern encounters with Byzantine texts and their reading publics / Ida Toth
- Love for the Written Word: The Emotions of Reading. John Mauropous and the benefits of reading / Marina Bazzani
- The autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios / Michael Angold
- Centre and Margins: The role of the speeches of John the Oxite in Komnenian court politics / Judith R. Ryder
- The liturgical poetics of an elite religious confraternity / Paul Magdalino
- Manuscript notes and the Black Death in rural Cyprus / Tassos Papacostas
- Contact with a Living Culture: The Power of Rhetoric. Ancient Greek rhetorical theory and Byzantine discursive politics: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes / Panagiotis Roilos
- Memoirs as manifesto: the rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos / Jonathan Shepard
- Performative reading in the late Byzantine theatron / Niels Gaul
- Religious Texts. The religious world of John Malalas / David M. Gwynn
- Oikonomia in the hymns of Romanos the Melode / Johannes Koder
- Quotation and allusion in Symeon the New Theologian / Manolis S. Patedakis
- Scriptural citation in Andronikos Kamateros / Alessandra Bucossi
- Secular Texts. Aristocratic family narratives in twelfth-century Byzantium / Peter Frankopan
- Historiography, epic and the textual transmission of imperial values: Liudprand's Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites / Gunter Prinzing
- Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine romance Tale of Troy / Ulrich Moennig
- Communication and Influence: Educational Practices. Late Byzantine school teaching through the iambic canons and their paraphrase / Dimitrios Skrekas
- Text and Image: Eros, literature and the Veroli Casket / Liz James
- Object, text and performance in four Komnenian poems / Margaret Mullett
- Textual and visual representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin West / Maja Kominko
- Interlingual Circulation and Transmission: Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian literary tradition in Byzantium / Tim Greenwood
- Bilingual reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi / James Howard-Johnston
- Transplanting culture: from Greek novel to medieval romance / Roderick Beaton
- Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology: Traces of Authorship: Anonymous textual survivals from Late Antiquity / Fiona K. Haarer
- Authorship and the Letters of Theodore Daphnopates / John Duffy
- Authorship revisited: language and metre in the Ptochoprodromika / Marjolijne C. Janssen and Marc D. Lauxtermann
- Recovered Languages: The lexicon of horses' colours in learned and vernacular texts / Erich Trapp
- Multilingualism and translation in the edition of vernacular texts / Manolis Papathomopoulos
- Afterword: reading and hearing in Byzantium / Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys.