{"product_id":"a-companion-to-byzantine-poetry-9789004391086","title":"A Companion to Byzantine Poetry ","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers the first complete overview of Byzantine poetry from the 4th to the 15th century. By bringing together 22 scholars, it explores the development of poetic trends and the interaction between poetry and society throughout the Byzantine millennium; it addresses a wide range of issues concerning the writing and reading of poetry (such as style, language, metrics, function, and circulation); and it surveys a large number of texts by looking closely at their place within the social and cultural milieus of their authors. Overall, the volume aims to enhance our understanding of Byzantine poetry and shed light on its important place in Byzantine literary culture.    Contributors are Eirini Afentoulidou, Gianfranco Agosti, Roderick Beaton, Floris Bernard, Carolina Cupane, Kristoffel Demoen, Ivan Drpic, Jürgen Fuchsbauer, Antonia Giannouli, Martin Hinterberger, Wolfram Hörandner, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Marc Lauxtermann, Ingela Nilsson, Emilie van Opstall, Andreas Rhoby, Kurt Smolak, Foteini Spingou, Maria Tomadaki, Ioannis Vassis, Nikos Zagklas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a well conceived and organised book, covering a wide range of subjects concerned with Byzantine poetry, that will prove a useful tool for scholars of all levels\". Eleni Kaltsogianni, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 09.09.2020.     \"The volume will appeal and greatly help readers at different stages of their education. On the one hand, the more experienced ones will appreciate the extremely rich and up-to-date surveys. On the other, any graduate student entering the dauntingly large and often not clearly charted field of Byzantine studies will find a thorough introduction to the various periods, genres and contexts of Byzantine poetry and much to tickle their curiosity. [...] the Brill Companion to Byzantine Poetry is an impressive and truly remarkable achievement. It will hopefully contribute to giving Byzantine literature the place it deserves within Byzantine and Medieval studies at large both in research and in teaching . Cosimo Paravano, in Medioevo Greco, 20, 2020.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgementsX  Notes on Contributors X  Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction   Nikos Zagklas    Part 1: Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style  1 Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts   Marc D. Lauxtermann    2 The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms,  and “Mixed Language”   Martin Hinterberger    3 From Hexameters to Fifteen-syllable Verse   Michael Jeffreys    4 Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric   Elizabeth Jeffreys    Part 2: Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus  5 Late Antique Poetry and its Reception   Gianfranco Agosti    6 George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry?   Ioannis Vassis    7 Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites   Kristoffel Demoen    8 John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000   Emilie van Opstall and Maria Tomadaki    9 The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries   Floris Bernard    10 “How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?” Poetry in the Komnenian  Period (1081–1204)   Nikos Zagklas    11 Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th century)   Andreas Rhoby    Part 3: Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond  12 “Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium   Kurt Smolak    13 Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World   Eirini Afentoulidou and Jürgen Fuchsbauer    14 Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200)   Carolina Cupane    Part 4: Transmission and Circulation  15 Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry   Foteini Spingou    16 Byzantine Book Epigrams   Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen    17 Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object,  and Beholder   Ivan Drpić and Andreas Rhoby    Part 5: Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium  18 Teaching with Verse in Byzantium   Wolfram Hörandner    19 Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers   Antonia Giannouli    20 The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse   Ingela Nilsson    21 Byzantine Verse Romances   Roderick Beaton    General Bibliography  General Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210768343383,"sku":"9789004391086","price":225.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-byzantine-poetry-9789004391086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}