A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography / edited by Alexander Riehle.

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789004424616 (electronic book)
9789004413696 (print)
Yer Numarası
DK/6194
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World ; 7
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407404
İçindekiler Notu
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Byzantine Epistolography: a Historical and Historiographical Sketch / Alexander Riehle -- Contexts for Byzantine Epistolography -- Letter Writing in Antiquity and Early Christianity / Thomas Johann Bauer -- Syriac Epistolography / Jack Tannous -- Letter Collections in the Latin West / Lena Wahlgren-Smith -- Byzantine Letter-Writers in Context -- Michael Psellos / Floris Bernard -- The Letters of Demetrios Kydones / Florin Leonte -- Forms and Functions of Byzantine Epistolography -- Epistolography and Rhetoric / Sofia Kotzabassi -- Epistolography and Diplomatics / Alexander Beihammer -- Didacticism in Byzantine Epistolography / Florin Leonte -- Epistolography and Philosophy / Divna Manolova -- Epistolary Culture and Friendship / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis -- Epistolary Communication: Rituals and Codes / Floris Bernard -- The Epistolographic Self / Stratis Papaioannou -- The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, and Soul (and Their Audience) / Niels Gaul -- Letters and Letter Exchange in Byzantine Art / Cecily J. Hilsdale -- Letters in Narrative Literature / Carolina Cupane -- Byzantine Epistolography and (Post-)Modern Theory -- Letters and Network Analysis / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller -- Letters and New Philology / Alexander Riehle -- Back Matter -- General Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Greek Terms -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Papyri.
Özet, vb.
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography introduces and contextualizes the culture of Byzantine letter writing from various socio-historical, material and literary angles. While this culture was long regarded as an ivory-tower pastime of intellectual elites, the eighteen essays in this volume, authored by leading experts in the field, show that epistolography had a vital presence in many areas of Byzantine society, literature and art. The chapters offer discussions of different types of letters and intersections with non-epistolary genres, their social functions as media of communication and performance, their representations in visual and narrative genres, and their uses in modern scholarship. The volume thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of letter writing in the Byzantine Empire and beyond.
Konu
Byzantine letters __ History and criticism.
Letter writing, Greek.
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