Research Catalog

Title

Fictional storytelling in the medieval eastern Mediterranean and beyond / edited by Carolina Cupane, Bettina Krönung.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cupane, Carolina
• Krönung, Bettina

Description

xiii, 536 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Series Statement

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 1

Uniform Title

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 1.

Subject

• Byzantine literature > Mediterranean Region > History and criticism
• Fiction, Medieval > History and criticism
• Narration (Rhetoric) > History
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature
• Mediterranean Region > Civilization > Foreign influences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Medieval Fictional Story-Telling in the Eastern Mediterranean (8th-15th centuries AD): Historical and Cultural Context; part 1; Of Love and Other Adventures ; Chapter 1; Mapping the Roots: The Novel in Antiquity ; Massimo Fusillo; Chapter 2; Romantic Love in Rhetorical Guise: The Byzantine Revival of the Twelfth Century; Ingela Nilsson; Chapter 3; In the Mood of Love: Love Romances in Medieval Persian Poetry and their Sources; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 4; In the Realm of Eros: The Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance -- Original texts; Carolina Cupane; Chapter 5; The Adaptations of Western Sources by Byzantine Vernacular Romances; Kostas Yiavis.
• Part 2; Ancient and New Heroes ; Chapter 6; A Hero Without Borders: 1 Alexander the Great in Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek Tradition; Ulrich Moennig; Chapter 7; A Hero Without Borders: 2 Alexander the Great in the Syriac and Arabic Tradition; Faustina C.W. Doufikar-Aerts; Chapter 8; A Hero Without Borders: 3 Alexander the Great in the Medieval Persian Tradition; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 9; Tales of the Trojan War: Achilles and Paris in Medieval Greek Literature; Renata Lavagnini.
• Chapter 10; Shared Spaces: 1 Digenis Akritis, the Two-Blood Border Lord; Corinne Jouanno; Chapter 11; Shared Spaces: 2 Cross-border Warriors in the Arabian Folk Epic; Claudia Ott ; part 3; Wise Men and Clever Beasts ; Chapter 12; The Literary Life of a Fictional Life: Aesop in Antiquity and Byzantium; Grammatiki A. Karla; Chapter 13; Secundus the Silent Philosopher in the Ancient and Eastern Tradition; Oliver Overwien; Chapter 14; Fighting with Tales: 1 The Arabic Book of Sindbad the Philosopher; Bettina Krönung.
• Chapter 15; Fighting with Tales: 2 The Byzantine Book of Syntipas the Philosopher; Ida Toth; Chapter 16; From the Desert to the Holy Mountain: The Beneficial Story of Barlaam and Ioasaph; Robert Volk; Chapter 17; The Wisdom of the Beasts: The Arabic Book of Kalīla and Dimna and the Byzantine Book of Stephanites and Ichnelates; Bettina Krönung; part 4; Between Literacy and Orality: Audience and Reception of Fictional Literature ; Chapter 18; "I grasp, oh, artist, your enigma, I grasp your drama": Reconstructing the Implied Audience of the Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel*; Panagiotis Roilos; Chapter 19; "Let me tell you a wonderful tale": Audience and Reception of the Vernacular Romances; Carolina Cupane; General Bibliography; General Index.

Call Number

JFE 17-4620

ISBN

• 9789004289994
• 9004289992

LCCN

• 2016026210
• 40026553068

OCLC

950430611

Title

Fictional storytelling in the medieval eastern Mediterranean and beyond / edited by Carolina Cupane, Bettina Krönung.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 1

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cupane, Carolina, editor.

Krönung, Bettina, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Fictional storytelling in the medieval eastern Mediterranean and beyond. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004307728 (DLC) 2016036782

Other Standard Identifier

40026553068

Research Call Number

JFE 17-4620