Research Catalog

Title

A companion to Byzantine epistolography / edited by Alexander Riehle.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Riehle, A. (Alexander)

Description

xii, 529 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography introduces and contextualizes the culture of Byzantine letter writing from various socio-historical, material and literary angles. While this culture was long regarded as an ivory-tower pastime of intellectual elites, the eighteen essays in this volume, authored by leading experts in the field, show that epistolography had a vital presence in many areas of Byzantine society, literature and art. The chapters offer discussions of different types of letters and intersections with non-epistolary genres, their social functions as media of communication and performance, their representations in visual and narrative genres, and their uses in modern scholarship. The volume thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of letter writing in the Byzantine Empire and beyond"--

Series Statement

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world, 2212-7429 ; 7

Uniform Title

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; v. 7.

Alternative Title

Byzantine epistolography

Subject

• Byzantine letters > History and criticism
• Letter writing, Greek
• Byzantine letters

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part 1. Contexts for Byzantine epistolography. 1. Letter writing in antiquity and early Christianity / Thomas Johann Bauer ; 2. Syriac epistolography / Jack Tannous ; 3. Letter collections in the Latin West / Lena Wahlgren-Smith -- Part 2. Byzantine letter-writers in context. 4. Michael Psellos / Floris Bernard ; 5. The letters of Demetrios Kydones / Florin Leonte -- Part 3. Forms and functions of Byzantine epistolography. 6. Epistolography and rhetoric / Sofia Kotzabassi ; 7. Epistolography and diplomatics / Alexander Beihammer ; 8. Didacticism in Byzantine epistolography / Florin Leonte ; 9. Epistolography and philosophy / Divna Manolova ; 10. Epistolary culture and friendship / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis ; 11. Epistolary communications: rituals and codes / Floris Bernard ; 12. The epistolographic self / Stratis Papaioannou ; 13. The letter in the Theatron: epistolary voice, character, and soul (and their audience) / Niels Gaul ; 14. Letters and letter exchange in Byzantine art / Cecily J. Hilsdale ; 15. Letters in narrative literature / Carolina Cupane -- Part 4. Byzantine epistolography and (post-) modern theory. 16. Letters and network analysis / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller ; 17. Letters and new philology / Alexander Riehle.

Call Number

JFE 21-2911

ISBN

• 9789004413696
• 9004413693

LCCN

2020017493

OCLC

1143649581

Title

A companion to Byzantine epistolography / edited by Alexander Riehle.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world, 2212-7429 ; 7

Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; v. 7.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Riehle, A. (Alexander), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Riehle, Alexander, A companion to Byzantine epistolography Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004424616 (DLC) 2020017494

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2911