The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: Modes, Functions, and Identities

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The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature

Modes, Functions, and Identities

Edited by: Aglae Pizzone

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 28 | Byzantinisches Archiv

About this book

Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.

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Aglae Pizzone, Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Byzantine Studies

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Note on citation and transliteration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
List of abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Introduction
The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within Aglae Pizzone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
First Part: Modes
Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author Stratis Papaioannou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11^th Century Floris Bernard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos Raimondo Tocci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk Marc D. Lauxtermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas Ida Toth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Second Part: Functions
Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9^th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son Derek Krueger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10^th Century Luisa Andriollo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship Foteini Spingou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
“Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge.” Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings Ulrike Kenens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12th Century Margaret Mullett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Third Part: Identities
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs Aglae Pizzone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women’s Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period Alexander Riehle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē Leonora Neville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Afterword
A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship Ian Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Index of authors and texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

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eBook published on:

October 24, 2014

eBook ISBN:

9781614515197

Hardcover published on:

October 13, 2014

Hardcover ISBN:

9781614517115

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Front matter:

14

Main content:

575

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515197

eBook ISBN: 9781614515197

Hardcover ISBN: 9781614517115

Keywords for this book

Medieval literature; Byzantine literature; authorship studies

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All those interested in Byzantine and Medieval literature, as well as scholars of classical reception studies.

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