| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 529 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Series |
Brill's companions to the Byzantine world,
22127429 ;
olume 7
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Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; v. 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Byzantine letters -- History and criticism.
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Letter writing, Greek.
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Byzantine letters |
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Letter writing, Greek |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Riehle, A. (Alexander), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Riehle, A. (Alexander). A companion to Byzantine epistolography Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004413696 (DLC) 2020017493 |
| ISBN |
900442461X electronic book |
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9789004424616 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004413696 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
16802359 |
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