Reading in the Byzantine Empire and beyond / edited by Teresa Shawcross, Ida Toth.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές και ευρετήριο.

Introduction to books, readers, and reading. Byzantium: a bookish world / Teresa Shawcross -- Modern encounters with Byzantine texts and their reading publics / Ida Toth -- Love for the Written Word: The Emotions of Reading. John Mauropous and the benefits of reading / Marina Bazzani -- The autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios / Michael Angold -- Centre and Margins: The role of the speeches of John the Oxite in Komnenian court politics / Judith R. Ryder -- The liturgical poetics of an elite religious confraternity / Paul Magdalino -- Manuscript notes and the Black Death in rural Cyprus / Tassos Papacostas -- Contact with a Living Culture: The Power of Rhetoric. Ancient Greek rhetorical theory and Byzantine discursive politics: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes / Panagiotis Roilos -- Memoirs as manifesto: the rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos / Jonathan Shepard -- Performative reading in the late Byzantine theatron / Niels Gaul -- Religious Texts.The religious world of John Malalas / David M. Gwynn -- Oikonomia in the hymns of Romanos the Melode / Johannes Koder -- Quotation and allusion in Symeon the New Theologian / Manolis S. Patedakis -- Scriptural citation in Andronikos Kamateros / Alessandra Bucossi -- Secular Texts. Aristocratic family narratives in twelfth-century Byzantium / Peter Frankopan -- Historiography, epic and the textual transmission of imperial values: Liudprand's Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites / Gunter Prinzing -- Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine romance Tale of Troy / Ulrich Moennig -- Communication and Influence: Educational Practices. Late Byzantine school teaching through the iambic canons and their paraphrase / Dimitrios Skrekas -- Text and Image: Eros, literature and the Veroli Casket / Liz James -- Object, text and performance in four Komnenian poems / Margaret Mullett -- Textual and visual representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin West / Maja Kominko -- Interlingual Circulation and Transmission: Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian literary tradition in Byzantium / Tim Greenwood -- Bilingual reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi / James Howard-Johnston -- Transplanting culture: from Greek novel to medieval romance / Roderick Beaton -- Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology: Traces of Authorship: Anonymous textual survivals from Late Antiquity / Fiona K. Haarer -- Authorship and the Letters of Theodore Daphnopates / John Duffy -- Authorship revisited: language and metre in the Ptochoprodromika / Marjolijne C. Janssen and Marc D. Lauxtermann -- Recovered Languages: The lexicon of horses' colours in learned and vernacular texts / Erich Trapp -- Multilingualism and translation in the edition of vernacular texts / Manolis Papathomopoulos -- Afterword: reading and hearing in Byzantium / Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys.