The Letters Of Psellos
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The Letters Of Psellos
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Author : Michael Jeffreys
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Letters Of Psellos written by Michael Jeffreys and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and culture of the time: literary masterpieces in and of themselves, yet often complex and difficult to understand in their entirety, they not only rebound with subtlety and humor, but also offer invaluable information on myriad subjects ranging from the political culture of Byzantium and its civil administration to social codes, religious beliefs, and popular culture. This volume consists of two complementary parts designed to make Psellos' letters as widely accessible as possible, both to the specialist academic community and to a wider non-specialist audience. The first part contains five essays offering detailed historical and literary analyses of a considerable number of the letters across a range of different topics, including the financial management of monasteries, the friendship of Psellos and John Mauropous, and the challenges posed by Psellian irony. While the essays are supplemented by individual appendices containing the translated text of the pertinent letters, the second part of the book presents annotated summaries in English of the entirety of Psellos' correspondence, compiled over many years as part of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project and supported by substantial excursuses and notes. The result is an engaging and accessible shortcut into these bewildering and fascinating letters and an essential resource for the study of eleventh-century Byzantine society and culture through the pen of one of its pre-eminent figures.
Psellos And The Patriarchs
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Author : Michael Psellos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-30
Psellos And The Patriarchs written by Michael Psellos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople.
Epistulae
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Author : Michael Psellus
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Epistulae written by Michael Psellus and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Literary Collections categories.
This is the first critical edition of the 520 letters of Michael Psellos, based on approximately 40 medieval Greek manuscripts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture. A recent survey recorded 1176 Psellian texts, approximately 1790 medieval and early modern manuscripts with one or more of these texts, and ca. 1300 bibliographical items, from 1497 to the year 2000. Psellos also figures in modern non-academic writing: in Renaissance novels, in Seferis, Auden, and others. Psellos is thus arguably among the most prolific and popular medieval Greek authors. The appeal is no accident. Psellos wrote about nearly every subject and in just about every Byzantine genre. His philosophical texts and lectures are invaluable sources of Byzantine knowledge. The rhetorical writings, such as speeches, histories, and, most importantly, the letters edited here offer us glimpses into the lives of well-known but also everyday Byzantines. Psellos' letter-collection is, after all, one of the finest specimens of this popular Byzantine genre. It sheds light to networks of Constantinopolitan ruling elite, and, most importantly, habits of literary imagination as well as typologies of self.
A Companion To Byzantine Epistolography
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-22
A Companion To Byzantine Epistolography written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-22 with History categories.
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.
Michael Psellos
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Author : Stratis Papaioannou
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Michael Psellos written by Stratis Papaioannou and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Greek literature categories.
"This book explores Michael Psellos' place in the history of Greek rhetoric and self-representation and his impact on the development of Byzantine literature. Avoiding the modern dilemma that vacillates between Psellos the pompous rhetorician and Psellos the ingenious thinker, Professor Papaioannou unravels the often misunderstood Byzantine rhetoric, its rich discursive tradition, and the social fabric of elite Constantinopolitan culture which rhetoric addressed. The book offers close readings of Psellos' personal letters, speeches, lectures, and historiographical narratives, and analysis of other early Byzantine and classical models of authorship in Byzantine book culture, such as Gregory of Nazianzos, Synesios of Cyrene, Hermogenes, and Plato. It also details Psellos' innovative attention to authorial creativity, performative mimesis, and the aesthetics of the self. Simultaneously, it traces within Byzantium complex expressions of emotion and gender, notions of authorship and subjectivity, and theories of fictionality and literature, challenging the common fallacy that these are modern inventions"--
Michael Psellos On Literature And Art
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Author : Michael Psellos
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2017-04-30
Michael Psellos On Literature And Art written by Michael Psellos and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public.
Byzantine Legal Culture And The Roman Legal Tradition 867 1056
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Author : Zachary Chitwood
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-27
Byzantine Legal Culture And The Roman Legal Tradition 867 1056 written by Zachary Chitwood and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with History categories.
An accessible and innovative introductory study of Byzantine law in its wider societal context under the Macedonian dynasty.
Theophylact Of Ochrid
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Author : Margaret Mullett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Theophylact Of Ochrid written by Margaret Mullett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and the only trace of a complex network of friends, colleagues, patrons and clients within Byzantine Bulgaria and also within the empire as a whole. These letters are of great importance from the point of view of local economic or ecclesiastical history, relations with the Slavs, the arrival of the First Crusade, but have not hitherto been studied as an example of Byzantine letter writing. This was a genre taken seriously by Byzantines, offering us unique insight into the mentality of the Byzantine elite, but also into what the Byzantines regarded as literature. This book is important as an attempt to raise the status of the study of Byzantine literature, and of letters within that literature. It is a first attempt to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts; its aim, too, is to probe the reliability of any rhetorical text for straightforward biography especially at the time of the revival fiction in Byzantium. At the heart of the book is an analysis of the personal network of Theophylact, as presented in the collection, with further methodological discussion of network analysis in medieval texts.
Byzantine Authors
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Author : John William Nesbitt
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Byzantine Authors written by John William Nesbitt and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
The volume presents students and researchers with texts and translations of Byzantine letters, treatises, speeches, teaching aids, and instructional guides.
Mothers And Sons Fathers And Daughters
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Author : Michael Psellus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Mothers And Sons Fathers And Daughters written by Michael Psellus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Byzantine Empire categories.
"Michael Psellos was the 'Cicero of Byzantium, ' except that his interests were more wide-ranging than those of his Roman predecessor. In addition to being a politician, poet, and writer of letters, speeches, and treatises on philosophy and rhetoric, he was an innovative historian and a practical educator who interested himself in all aspects of learning, from mathematics and medicine to theurgy. Before now, only his 'Chronographia' has been at all well known. Anthony Kaldellis has done a great service in making accessible a collection of texts bearing upon personal familial relationships, of which we know so little in Byzantium. His translations read well, are accurate, and reflect Psellos' literary subtlety. His commentaries are scholarly and give vital information for the better understanding of this facet of Byzantine society." --Antony R. Littlewood, University of Western Ontario "Anthony Kaldellis is a skilled and gifted translator, one of the best I have ever encountered. I am very excited that we will have access to Psellos' two important encomia of his mother and daughter in an accurate and readable translation, so that more scholars and students will be able to read these works which offer such fascinating insights into family life in eleventh-century Byzantium. This book will be an excellent lead-off volume in the Psellos series, and make scholars anxious for the subsequent volumes to appear." --Alice-Mary Talbot, Director, Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters makes available for the first time complete English translations from the works of Michael Psellos (1018-1076?), a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a long funeral oration for his mother that features unique recollections from a childhood spent in Constantinople; a funeral oration for his young daughter Styliane, which includes a detailed description of her physical appearance and a moving account of her illness and death; a legal work pertaining to the engagement of his second, adopted, daughter; and various letters and other works that relate to the private life of this Byzantine family.