Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Note on citation and transliteration VII
4. Notes on contributors IX
5. List of abbreviations XIII
6. Introduction
7. The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within 3
8. First Part: Modes
9. Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author 21
10. The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11^th Century 41
11. Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos 61
12. His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk 77
13. Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas 87
14. Second Part: Functions
15. Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9^th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son 105
16. Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10^th Century 119
17. The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship 139
18. “Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge.” Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings 155
19. In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12th Century 171
20. Third Part: Identities
21. Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον 201
22. Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs 225
23. Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women’s Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period 245
24. The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē 263
25. Afterword
26. A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship 277
27. Bibliography 295
28. General Index 329
29. Index of authors and texts 339