Research Catalog

Title

Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos : Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung / Alexander Riehle.

Author

Riehle, A. (Alexander)

Publication

• Berlin : De Gruyter, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Choumnos, Nikēphoros, approximately 1250-1327.

Description

xxxv, 529 pages : color facsimile; 25 cm.

Summary

The letter collections that the high-ranking court official Nikephoros Choumnos (c.1260-1327) compiled on the basis of his correspondence with the emperor, fellow intellectuals, clergymen and relatives, are an important testimony to the social and intellectual history of late Byzantium. They show how during this period of cultural revival and political crisis writers used letters not only as a medium for communication and networking within a small educated elite based primarily in Constantinople but also as a vehicle for self-representation through the publication of carefully curated manuscript collections. The present book aims to make these different, yet closely intertwined layers of the 180 surviving letters of Nikephoros Choumnos accessible through a new critical edition with facing German translation. One of its main objectives is to present the individual collections the author commissioned as autonomous works of literary autobiography and to foreground textual fluidity on both the macrostructural level of the collections and the microstructural level of each letter. In addition to a short biography of the author, the introduction provides fundamental analyses of various aspects of the collections and of the individual letters preserved in them (transmission, formation and composition of the collections, prosopography, summaries with commentary, linguistic and literary elements), offers a detailed discussion of the orthography of the authorial manuscripts and explains the principles and methods applied in the edition and translation. --Publisher summary (translation).

Series Statement

Byzantinisches Archiv, 1864-9785 ; Band 43

Uniform Title

Byzantinisches Archiv ; Bd. 43.

Subject

• Choumnos, Nikēphoros, approximately 1250-1327 > Correspondence
• Choumnos, Nikēphoros, approximately 1250-1327
• 1391-1425
• Manuscripts, Byzantine > Translations
• Byzantine letters
• Greek letters > History and criticism
• Greek letters > Translations into German
• Greek language, Medieval and late
• Manuscripts, Byzantine
• Greek letters
• Courts and courtiers
• Byzantine Empire > Court and courtiers > Correspondence
• Byzantine Empire > History > Manuel II Palaeologus, 1391-1425
• Byzantine Empire

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Translations.
• History.

Note

• Revised doctoral thesis.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xxxv) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Original text in Greek with parallel German translation; critical matter in German.

Call Number

JX 23-14159

ISBN

• 9781614516019
• 1614516014
• 9781614514428 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2023940866
• 9781614516019

OCLC

1392437068

Author

Riehle, A. (Alexander), writer of introduction, editor, translator.

Title

Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos : Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung / Alexander Riehle.

Publisher

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Byzantinisches Archiv, 1864-9785 ; Band 43

Byzantinisches Archiv ; Bd. 43.

Thesis

Ph. D., Universität München, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xxxv) and indexes.

Language

Original text in Greek with parallel German translation; critical matter in German.

Chronological Term

1391-1425

Added Author

Choumnos, Nikēphoros, approximately 1250-1327. Correspondence.

Choumnos, Nikēphoros, approximately 1250-1327. Correspondence. German.

Other Standard Identifier

9781614516019

Research Call Number

JX 23-14159