ABSTRACT
After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature.
Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Professor Mullett's perceptive studies, produced over more than 40 years, have shown that the literature of the Byzantine Empire is of equal beauty and interest, ranging, as it does, from high-style poetry and rhetoric in the classical manner through letters to demotic writings such as fables and the lives of saints. The collection of essays in this volume draws further attention to the wealth and diversity of Byzantine texts, by exploring the Greek literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in all its variety. These studies, by going, like Professor Mullett herself, beyond the texts, illustrate the value of Byzantine literature for interpreting Byzantine history and civilisation in all its richness.
This book is crucial reading for scholars and students of the Byzantine world, as well as for those interested in literary studies.
Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|51 pages
Performance, narrative and text
chapter 1|12 pages
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Hypapante) according to two Byzantine Hymnographers
chapter 4|15 pages
Visually demolished and textually reconstructed
part |58 pages
(ii) Narrative
chapter 6|13 pages
Narratives of fluency
part |74 pages
(iii) Text
chapter 11|20 pages
Τῇ βασιλίσσῃ μοναχῇ κυρᾷ
chapter 13|13 pages
Letters, Latinitas and latent wordplay
part II|68 pages
Emotion and gender
chapter 17|8 pages
Basil the Younger comes to stay
part III|94 pages
Text and physical context