
Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium
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Summary
Table of Contents
Preface | |
25 years of Byzantine letters, literacy and literature | |
Letters | |
The classical tradition in the Byzantine letter | |
The language of diplomacy | |
Originality in the Byzantine letter: the case of exile | |
1098 and all that: Theophylact bishop of Semnea and the Alexian reconquest of Anatolia | |
Literary Practices | |
Writing in early medieval Byzantium | |
Food for the spirit and a light for the road: reading the Bible in the Life of Cyril Phileotes | |
The Literary Process | |
Aristocracy and patronage in the literary circles of Comnenian Constantinople;The madness of genre | |
Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of performance: Byzantium and now | |
Novelisation in Byzantium: narrative after the revival of fiction | |
Literary Texts | |
Alexios I Komnenos and imperial renewal | |
The imperial vocabulary of Alexios I Komnenos | |
In peril on the sea: travel genres and the unexpected | |
Literary biography and historical genre in the Life of Cyril Phileotes | |
Literature | |
Dancing with deconstructionists in the gardens of the Muses: new literary history vs ? | |
New literary history and the history of Byzantine literature: a worthwhile endeavour? | |
Additional notes and comments | |
Errata | |
Index | |
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