Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Byzantine Poetry in Context 43 see, in effect, is the Byzantine poet ringing all the changes, in a somewhat desperate effort to ...

44 Part One: Texts and Contexts great interest to the iconophile opponents, even epigrams that never made it. The badly written ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 45 that high-placed Byzantines would normally turn to professional poets in order to ensure that the ...

46 Part One: Texts and Contexts concords with true orthodoxy (see poem no. 105d). And if you are a disciple of Gregory Asbestas ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 47 dexterity, and failed to achieve rhetorical grandeur. But we do not know if good poets, such as C ...

48 Part One: Texts and Contexts anonymous Sicilian^66. The poem is, even by Byzantine standards, a mediocre piece of writing. It ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 49 It is simply a trite poetic device that helps to ensure that all those present at the recital of ...

50 Part One: Texts and Contexts gathered along the streets and on the central squares, they see the emperor’s body escorted to i ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 51 As for poetry that is not declaimed or sung, but rather is intended to be read, it is again quite ...

52 Part One: Texts and Contexts of understanding Leo Choirosphaktes’ didactic poem, there can be hardly any doubt that the Thous ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 53 mother. He is told to interpret this image as a symbol of God the Saviour, who became man on eart ...

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Chapter Two 2. COLLECTIONS OF POEMS One late summer afternoon, at the turn of the millennium, a group of friends was making a pl ...

56 Part One: Texts and Contexts publications, silent reading was not the rule in the Middle Ages^3. I will give three arguments. ...

Collections of Poems 57 means of acquiring knowledge. Listening to literature, either in the classroom or among friends, must ha ...

58 Part One: Texts and Contexts an emperor long dead, when there are so many edifying or practical texts to be copied?^15 In the ...

Collections of Poems 59 meron, Prodromos’ Tetrasticha and Manasses’ verse chronicle). Byzantine poems are very much products of ...

60 Part One: Texts and Contexts factors and relying on plain common sense. Since Byzantine society is definite- ly not static, l ...

Collections of Poems 61 basis of manuscripts and without further explanations, modern scholars fail to recreate the literary mom ...

62 Part One: Texts and Contexts that we know only a small fraction of all Byzantine poems ever written, not only because of the ...