A Companion to Byzantine Poetry

Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction......Page 15
Part 1 Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style......Page 31
Chapter 1 Texts and Contexts......Page 33
Chapter 2 The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms, and “Mixed Language”......Page 52
Chapter 3 From Hexameters to Fifteen-Syllable Verse......Page 80
Chapter 4 Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric......Page 106
Part 2 Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus......Page 127
Chapter 5 Late Antique Poetry and Its Reception......Page 129
Chapter 6 George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry?......Page 163
Chapter 7 Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites......Page 180
Chapter 8 John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000......Page 205
Chapter 9 The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries......Page 226
Chapter 10 “How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?”: Poetry in the Komnenian Period (1081–1204)......Page 251
Chapter 11 Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th Century)......Page 278
Part 3 Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond......Page 319
Chapter 12 “Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium......Page 321
Chapter 13 Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World......Page 345
Chapter 14 Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200)......Page 367
Part 4 Transmission and Circulation......Page 393
Chapter 15 Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry......Page 395
Chapter 16 Byzantine Book Epigrams......Page 418
Chapter 17 Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object, and Beholder......Page 444
Part 5 Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium......Page 471
Chapter 18 Teaching with Verse in Byzantium......Page 473
Chapter 19 Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers......Page 501
Chapter 20 The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse......Page 531
Chapter 21 Byzantine Verse Romances......Page 553
General Bibliography......Page 571
General Index......Page 580
Manuscript Index......Page 589