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Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana Obsidione Relatio: A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Accoun

Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana Obsidione Relatio: A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Accoun

Cuomo, Andrea Massimo

Hardcover

Series: Byzantinisches Archiv, Book 30

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAncient History GeneralEastern European History

ISBN10: 1501510908
ISBN13: 9781501510908
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: May 10 2016
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.

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