Poetry in Late Byzantium

Poetry in Late Byzantium

Kubina, Krystina

Brill

07/2024

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Contents


Abbreviations


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors





Part 1: Introduction


1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late Byzantium


?Krystina Kubina





Part 2: Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning


2 Worlds Apart?


?Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes Compared


?Martin Hinterberger





3 Slithering across Verse


?The Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes' Poetry


?Federica Scognamiglio





4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos' Rhetoric


?A Comparison of Verse and Prose Compositions


?Florin Leonte





Part 3: Praise, Power, and Patronage


5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII Palaiologos


?Manuel Holobolos' Prokypsis Poems and Their Contexts


?Cosimo Paravano





6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel Philes


?Daniil Pleshak





7 Poetry from the Provinces


?John Katakalon's Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos


?Marina Bazzani





8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore Gaza


?Ugo Mondini





Part 4: Storytelling in Verse


9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late Byzantium


?Towards a Reassessment of Ephraim of Ainos


?Julian Bertola





10 Singing Heroes in the Time of Knights


?Constantine Hermoniakos and His Iliad


?Alberto Ravani





11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?


?A Greek Case of Biographie Chevaleresque


?Brendan Osswald





Part 5: Poetry and Instruction


12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their Readers


?Prose and Poetry at Work


?Giulia M. Paoletti





13 Verses of Great Beauty


?An Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic Poems


?Marc D. Lauxtermann





14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?


?On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and Beyond


?Theodora Antonopoulou





Index
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