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Michael Psellos on literature and art : a Byzantine perspective on aesthetics
- Title
- Michael Psellos on literature and art : a Byzantine perspective on aesthetics / edited by Charles Barber and Stratis Papaioannou.
- Author
- Psellus, Michael
- Publication
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barber, Charles, 1964-
- Description
- xvi, 429 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Michael Psellos has long been known as a key figure in the history of Byzantine literary and intellectual culture, but his theoretical and critical reflections on literature and art are little known outside of a small circle of specialists. Most famous for his Chronographia, a history of eleventh-century Byzantine emperors and their reigns, Psellos also excelled in describing as well as prescribing practices and rules for literary discourse and visual culture. 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. The editors of this volume present thirty Psellian texts, all of which have been translated - some in part, most in their entirety - into English. In the majority of cases, the works are translated for the first time in any modern language, and several are discussed at length here for the first time. They are grouped into two separate sections, which roughly translate to two areas of theoretical reflection associated with the modern terms 'literature' and 'art.'0.
- Series Statement
- Michael Psellos in translation
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English. 2017
- Michael Psellos in translation.
- Alternative Title
- Works. 2017
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-403) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-8627
- ISBN
- 9780268100483
- 0268100489
- 9780268100490
- 0268100497
- LCCN
- 2017001226
- OCLC
- 962232560
- Author
- Psellus, Michael, author.
- Title
- Michael Psellos on literature and art : a Byzantine perspective on aesthetics / edited by Charles Barber and Stratis Papaioannou.
- Publisher
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Michael Psellos in translationMichael Psellos in translation.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-403) and index.
- Added Author
- Barber, Charles, 1964- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-8627