{"product_id":"the-tale-of-livistros-and-rodamne-a-byzantine-love-romance-of-the-13th-century-9781789622164","title":"The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the \u003ci\u003eTale of Livistros and Rodamne\u003c\/i\u003e, a love romance written around the middle of 13th century at the imperial court of Nicaea, at the time when Constantinople was still under Latin dominion. With its approximately 4700 verses, \u003ci\u003eLivistros and Rodamne\u003c\/i\u003e is the longest and the most artfully composed of the eight surviving Byzantine love romances. It was almost certainly written to be recited in front of an aristocratic audience by an educated poet experienced in the Greek tradition of erotic fiction, yet at the same time knowledgeable of the Medieval French and Persian romances of love and adventure. The poet has created a very 'modern' narrative filled with attractive episodes, including the only scene of demonic incantation in Byzantine fiction. The language of the romance is of a high poetic quality, challenging the translator at every step. Finally, \u003ci\u003eLivistros and Rodamne\u003c\/i\u003e is the only Byzantine romance that consistently constructs the Latin world of chivalry as an exotic setting, a type of \u003ci\u003eoccidentalism \u003c\/i\u003eaiming to tame and to incorporate the Frankish Other in the social norms of the Byzantine Self after the Fall of Constantinople to the Latins in 1204.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[\u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Livistros and Rodamne\u003c\/i\u003e] is a fascinating text that will be of interest to a broad range of scholars including Byzantinists as well as anyone working on cross cultural literary and cultural interactions in the medieval Mediterranean.' \u003cbr\u003e Nicholas Morton, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Religious History, Literature \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Agapitos captures every sound, rhythm, and movement with attention to the lyricism of the original language... \u003cem\u003eThe Tale of Livistros and Rodamne\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary triumph and a solid step forward in the right direction in Byzantine and world literary studies.' \u003cbr\u003e Christina Christoforatou, \u003cem\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Panagiotis Agapitos’ translation of the mid-thirteenth-century romance \u003cem\u003eLivistros and Rodamne\u003c\/em\u003e does justice to one of the great works of Byzantine literature through one of its great scholars. [Agapitos] restores the poetry to the poem, in terms of both its verse layout and the pleasures of its inventive diction and intricate structure.’ Adam J. Goldwyn, \u003cem\u003eByzantine and Modern Greek Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface                                                                                                                           \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction                                                                                                                   \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eI.     General issues\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       1.    The genre of Byzantine romance\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       2.    \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e in older scholarship\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       3.    Textual history and editorial situation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       4.    Date, place of composition, primary audience\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eII.   Literary matters\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       1.    A brief summary of \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       2.    Relation to the Komnenian and Ancient Greek novels\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       3.    Relation to the Old French romances\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       4.    Byzantine occidentalism? Exoticism in \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       5.    The ‘awe-inspiring mysteries’ of a poet’s art\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       6.    Narrative and the organization of time\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       7.    Narrative space and narrated spaces\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       8.    \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e as an instruction manual on the ‘art of love’\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       9.    Eros, hybrid power and the politics of desire\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e       10.  Poetic language and the blended style in \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIII.  The translation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Livistros and Rodamne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470046204247,"sku":"9781789622164","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789622164.jpg?v=1744897233","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tale-of-livistros-and-rodamne-a-byzantine-love-romance-of-the-13th-century-9781789622164","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}