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| Author | : Baukje van den Berg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2022-09-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 131651465X |
Addresses the importance of ancient literature for Byzantine society and explores various ways of recycling and understanding ancient works.
| Author | : Baukje van den Berg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2022-09-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1009092782 |
This is the first volume to explore the commentaries on ancient texts produced and circulating in Byzantium. It adopts a broad chronological perspective (from the twelfth to the fifteenth century) and examines different types of commentaries on ancient poetry and prose within the context of the study and teaching of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and science. By discussing the exegetical literature of the Byzantines as embedded in the socio-cultural context of the Komnenian and Palaiologan periods, the book analyses the frameworks and networks of knowledge transfer, patronage and identity building that motivated the Byzantine engagement with the ancient intellectual and literary tradition.
| Author | : Baukje van den Berg |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2022-06-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0192689088 |
Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity under the Komnenian emperors. For Eustathios, Homer was the supreme paradigm of eloquence and wisdom. Writing for an audience of aspiring or practising prose writers, he explains in his commentary what it is that makes Homer's composition so successful in rhetorical terms. This study explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. In this way, it advances our understanding of the rhetorical thought of a leading intellectual and the role of a cultural authority as respected as Homer in one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history.
| Author | : Nikos Zagklas |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2023-05-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0192886924 |
In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his poetry has been presented in modern critical editions, a group of his works has been overlooked by modern philologists and literary scholars alike. The selected corpus--conventionally designated as Miscellaneous Poems--consists of texts on various themes and in a wide range of genres, ranging from cycles of religious and secular epigrams to riddles, ethopoiiai, and works of a self-referential and essayistic nature. This book includes the first critical edition and study of these poems, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. Their study contributes to a more nuanced picture of Prodromos' intellectual profile, expanding his image as the 'poet laureate' of the Komnenian court and providing entirely new insights into his activity in the different settings of Constantinopolitan intellectual life. The book also sheds new light on the complex relationship between patronage and other aspects of literary activity and the circulation of the same text in different performative contexts.
| Author | : Garrick V. Allen |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2024-09-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1467466875 |
An innovative study of the manuscript history of the New Testament, encompassing its paratexts—titles, cross-references, prefaces, marginalia, and more. How did the Christian scriptures come to be? In Words Are Not Enough, Garrick V. Allen argues that our exploration of the New Testament's origins must take account of more than just the text on the page. Where did the titles, verses, and chapters come from? Why do these extras, the paratexts, matter? Allen traces the manuscript history of scripture from our earliest extant texts through the Middle Ages to illuminate the origins of the printed Bibles we have today. Allen’s research encompasses formatting, titles, prefaces, subscriptions, cross-references, marginalia, and illustrations. Along the way, he explains how anonymous scribes and scholars contributed to our framing—and thereby our understanding—of the New Testament. But Allen does not narrate this history to try to unearth a pristine authorial text. Instead, he argues that this process of change is itself sacred. On the handwritten page, scripture and tradition meet. Students, scholars, and any curious reader will learn how the messy, human transmission of the sacred text can enrich our biblical interpretation.
| Author | : Federico Favi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2024-06-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3111386163 |
The contributions included in this volume deal with the indirect tradition of classical Greek texts in anthologies, lexica and scholia. The innovative approach taken consists in considering the indirect sources as texts worth studying in their own right, rather than as repositories of older, more important texts. The indirect tradition in scholarly literature is thus considered in terms of its broader historical and cultural implications.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 834 |
| Release | : 2022-04-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004506055 |
Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives evoke emotions in their readers. The volume is dedicated to Irene de Jong for her groundbreaking research into the narratology of ancient literature.
| Author | : Peter Adamson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
| ISBN | : 0192856413 |
Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from the 8th century to the 15th century, then he explores the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the era of Machiavelli and Galileo.
| Author | : Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2011-10-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004212442 |
Twenty-five articles in art history, social history, literature, epigraphy, numismatics and sigillography pay tribute to Alice-Mary Talbot in a coherent volume related to her abiding interest in the study of Byzantine religious practices in their social context.
| Author | : Maurice Robinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-01-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781470912871 |
The New Testament published by Robinson and Pierpont is a wonderful, reliable edition of its original Greek text. It is very easy to have access to it on the internet, through apps, etc. I encourage the Bible student to use it, study it, promote it with confidence. This book presents the expositions by these two great scholars concerning the superiority of the Byzantine (Majority) Text form found in the 2005 edition of their Greek text published by Chilton Publishing. The Greek text of the Gospel of John has been added as a sample of the accuracy of their work. Also because of their contribution, we can boldly say that the case for the reliability of the biblical text has been clearly stated: it has been handed down through the centuries by manuscripts and edited by the valuable textual critics of our time. May God bless His Word, inspired and preserved, so that "the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:17) Giuseppe Guarino
