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Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium

Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium

Demoen, Kristoffel
Bernard, Floris

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient Greece

ISBN10: 1409440710
ISBN13: 9781409440710
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often permeated with wit and elegance, and is concerned with a wide variety of subjects. Only now are we beginning to perceive the possibilities that this poetry offers for our knowledge of Byzantine culture in general, for the intellectual history of Byzantium, and for the evolution of poetry itself. It is, moreover, sometimes in the most neglected texts that the most fascinating discoveries can be made. This book, the first collaborative book-length study on the topic, takes an important step to fill this gap. It brings together specialists of the period who delve into this poetry with different but complementary objectives in mind, covering the links between art and text, linguistic evolutions, social functionality, contemporary reading attitudes, and the like. The authors aim to give the production of 11th-century verse a place in the Byzantine genre system and in the historic evolution of Byzantine poetry and metrics. As a result, this book will, to use the expression of two important poets of the period, offer a small taste of what can be gained from the serious study of this period.

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